Freedom is born of self-discipline. No individual, no nation, can achieve or maintain liberty without self-control. The undisciplined man (or woman) is a slave to his own weaknesses.

Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.

For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time.

Whenever science makes a discovery the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.

Refusing dominance over others by using money is a clear sign of wisdom.

To add to truth distracts from it.

Hope for the best, expect the worst.

I'm just honest. They [asians] don't want to see black people generally in their movies.

Sold my guitar to the baker's son for a few crumbs and a place to hide.

I'd find myself more interesting if I weren't with me all the time.

You can make initial contact with someone who does not speak your language with signs or smiles, but to communicate you need words. So it is with a nation; to understand it you have to read its books

There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything.

So if you want to find somebody to blame for the way i am, I guess you'd have to start with the public education system.

I know when I'm onstage, I don't think about how it looks, I just concentrate on really feeling what I hear. But I totally know I look like Gollum when I perform, so it's cool.