Generosity gives assistance rather than advice.

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

Patience is the art of hoping.

The lazy are always wanting to do something.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

Prosperity makes few friends.

Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.

He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.

There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.

Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.

The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.

Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.

Jihad is obligatory for the Muslims.

I am a writer - that is what I am before being a performer or musician. I love waking up in the morning and then going to sleep that night with something that did not exist.

I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them.

Many people [still] believe that at the time of your death, 1,000 Buddhas show up and welcome you into the paradise state.

Baseball, while you're doing it, you think it's going to last forever.

My names John Bonham, I'm a drummer and I'm potty about cars.

Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast.

I think everyone should live in New York City if they ever get the chance at least once in their life. It's such a great place to live; there's a different energy about living in the city.

A fence to wisdom is silence.