I've learned to appreciate what I've got. I'm not going to waste an ounce of energy on sorting through the past or with worrying about the future. Life's too short for that.

It's like the seasons. When they start, you're one kind of person, and then when they end, you're somebody different.

Some choices are harder than they appear. You can never say yes to one thing without saying no to another.

Life's too short to play it safe sometimes. (If he feels something special about Emma, he should go for it.)

Some of the imperfections will be visible, but this house has been here a long time. I see no reason to cover up the dings and scars. We've all got 'em.

I'm proud of you. You could have run away, but you didn't. That's what most of us do when we have to face a giant.

The problem with most people who say they believe, however, is that said belief is only a thin layer of solid ice which rests over a vast ocean that is likewise deep with non-solid disbelief.

Fill your armoury with arrows of courage!

In the simple moral maxim the Marine Corps teaches — do the right thing, for the right reason — no exception exists that says: unless there's criticism or risk. Damn the consequences.

Toil is the true knight's pastime.

Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and stable individuality.

I never understood the need for a "live" audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.

Ring the bells that still can ring.

I think that we vote, not to get the best party in, but to keep the worst party out.

Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.

Melody always comes to me first before words - cadence and melody. When you're humming the melody and it's incredible and words start coming out it can build into something special.