Fear of death is worse than dying.

Honor women! they entwine and weave heavenly roses in our earthly life.

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

The will of man is his happiness.

O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.

Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.

There is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time.

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.

Ya were going to turn me into a rat? Had I known that I wouldn’t have tried to turn ya into a snake.

We need to move from comparative advantage to perpetual advantage...

Simplicity simplicity simplicity! I say let your affairs be as two or three and not a hundred or a thousand. ... Simplify simplify.

There's just a completely different vibe at festivals. Everyone gets to hang out and enjoy their favorite music all day. I really do try and play as many festivals as possible!

With current technology it is possible to put four floppy disk drives in a personal computer. It is just that doing so would be pointless.

The guitar is an orchestra in itself.

That song ["Don't Tell Me"] didn't take us anywhere, and I know why now. It wasn't what Van Halen fans wanted. It showed the darkness of Van Halen, and basically the end of the band.

I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.

These days I'm pretty much a businessman.