I never knew any man cured of inattention.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Be true to yourself and don't live your life according to other people's dreams and wants.

If we say something often enough, we come to believe it. We don't usually delude others until after we have first deluded ourselves.

I knew when I got to play with Al Jackson I would be a better bass player because he was the best drummer in the world. I worshipped him.

Often, I get the feeling that the story is really happening somewhere and all I'm doing is trying to work out the best way to tell it.

Where conflicting interests must be reconciled, the question shall always be answered from the standpoint of the greatest good of the greatest number in the long run.

I know a lot of great musicians that don't know they're even great, because mangers try and make them feel belittled like they're not worth a crap.

Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.

Pain results from a judgment you have made about a thing. Remove the judgment and the pain disappears.

An artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence.

I keep a creative group around me.