I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

Fatigues and hardships serve to wean me more from the earth, and will make heaven sweeter.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life not the top.

Truth will flourish in fantasy, only to wither and die in what you are pleased to call reality.

Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.

How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life.

In the end, democratic societies are stronger and more resilient than any autocracy. And more adaptable too.

Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that.

What's it called when a hellhole hits a cataclysm? A catastro[phrack]. I just coined that, didn't I?

Literature and film have a way of lifting you from your own existence and transporting you to some foreign place and putting you in the shoes with an experience different than your own.

It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.