I think I'll always make music that sounds different from what is current, but I doubt that it'll sound consistently the same as what I've been doing.

Action must be taken at once; there is no time to be lost; we shall yet see the oppressors' yoke broken and the fragments scattered on the ground.

Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

Action must be taken at once, there is no time to be lost.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.

That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Laws by definition do not change

May my children and descendants know God and keep His ways.

Integrity, wisdom, skill, intelligence – such things are forged in adversity.

Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs, and do them well.

Not many players get three cracks of the cherry.

I wanted to feel like an artist for once in my life. I wanted to use other producers for respect, to let them know that I listen to other people's music and that I'm just not out here on my own page.

Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment.

I'm old-school. I want to be there to drop off my daughter at school and pick her up.

I haven't done any translating for decades now. It's something I did when I was young.

There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people.