Heart of my heart, were it more, More would be laid at your feet.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

Shut your eyes and see.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

If Jesus ist not enough, you´ve lost.

If you hate me, you only harm yourself. You better love me.

Teachers need to sit with their journal and write in the voice of that teenager. Write and remember. That’s who we teach!

Walker's Law: There are few things made harder in this world by having money.

There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians.

Everyone seems to relate to the awkwardness of being a teenager, or even a 30-year-old.

Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.

Trying simply provides an excuse for not doing.

A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.

It's Ethan Hawke and John Travolta [in Valley of Violence]. It's awesome. They're awesome.