I think that people taking drugs occasionally are great. I think there's nothing wrong with it. But if you do it the whole time, you don't produce as good things as you could.

People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don't know what really matters.

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

There's no absolutes in life - only vodka.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

A good thing never ends.

I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.

Intelligence opens the door to the universe

You know, sometimes you've got to trust the people you love. You've got to trust that if they're good people, they'll make good decisions.

Music is largely psychic. It is a feeling. It is not logical. It is a feeling - Art, life, why we live - feelings.

The living have never shown me how to live.

People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must.

When I get it into my head that I want to do something, I do it.

It was always fun in the early days of Black Sabbath, when I stayed away from heavy drugs. Then someone gave me cocaine and I went, "Hallelujah!" I thought I'd found the meaning of life!

The past is over; the present is fleeting; we live in the future.

Trophies should go to the winners. Self-esteem does not lead to success in life. Self-discipline and self-control do, and sports can help teach those.

Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.