Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

If you want to double your productively, shorten the timeline to by 50%.

Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.

There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere... There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid toward your goals.

There's no ironic appreciation of things we love, even of things that are in fact ridiculous, which a hipster might take and own and show the world the humor in it.

I come from a tradition - from the Jewish tradition, which believes in words, in language, in communication.

It's hard to be shocking now. It's hard to challenge people because the Internet has allowed everyone to become much more worldly, much more visual. It's very hard to surprise people.

They say sleep is the cousin of death, guess we related... Cause I'm the most slept on, and the most hated.

I want to play in a place people want to hear me.

Every tour is different. We like to give people a piece of something.

It's all success if it's what you need.