God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.

Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

The object of art is to give life a shape.

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

The object of art is to give life shape.

You have the choice of deliberately directing your thinking, or allowing other forces to dictate your desires and attitudes.

Strong could be dealt with—but crazy? Oh no. You never knew what the crazy were going to do.

Good government is good politics.

I'm a big fan of new production techniques and new sounds. That's kind of what has been my focus out here; making sure that the songs can stand away from the production, however it's produced.

To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.

I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate results of what I am saying or doing or writing.

If you believe that the economy has more power over you than GRACE does, then you will buy into that story and start to live that life.

Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.

Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.

Our big goal should be to make connection to the Internet as common as connection to telephones is today.