Human nature is so weak that the honest men who have no religion make me fret with their perilous virtue, as rope-dancers with their dangerous equilibrium.

Since we are exposed to inevitable sorrows, wisdom is the art of finding compensation.

The uncertainty of events disturbs the purest enjoyments.

Reflection increases the vigor of the mind, as exercise does the strength of the body.

To judge of the real importance of the individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce.

Put down that map and get wonderfully lost.

I never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean - what's that? What's it all about? I was always flying on Christmas Day.

You know, I've got wrinkles on my forehead and smile lines, but what's wrong with that? I love to smile.

I think people want the intimacy in the engagement of sitting in a theater with people and seeing something happen live and engage in that. I think that could be a very powerful experience.

Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human

To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.

Nine-tenths of the world is entertained by scandalous rumors, which are never dissected until they are dead and, when pricked, collapse like an empty bladder.

My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.

It's hard to find five musicians who know what the other is going to do before they do it. And that's what we had in GN'R.

You have to see every potential roadblock as an opportunity and a benefit.