I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.

A honest man is seldom a vagrant.

I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.

Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.

Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.

Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.

I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.

Blessed be they as virtuous, who when they feel their virile members swollen with lust, visit a brothel rather than grind at some husband's private mill.

In doing nothing men learn to do evil.

Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.

Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.

I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.

The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed.

I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go.

I turn on the radio now and I don't have anything against a lot of sequenced and programmed and electronic music, a lot of it is dope and it's the future. It's what popular music has evolved to.

The apple . . . came before Adam and Eve in the story of creation. It had to have been there at least three years because that's how long it takes for a new tree to bear fruit.

Yes, Im quirky, loud and crazy.

When I'm having a bad day, I pick up my guitar.

I smuggled the camera, it was no problem to smuggle the camera there. And I took 60 photos, two films, during the time when there was no one in the control room, in the building.

It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing.

I simply adore 'The Simpsons.' I go to bed in a 'Simpsons' T-shirt.