If I have the gift of the prophecy, and can fathom all mystery's and knowledge, and if I have faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

Let go of what cannot be changed and let love in.

The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.

I've been in some beautiful places, but the prettiest sight is flying back to New Orleans. Being able to look down and say, 'I know where I am now.'

We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition.

The first day of the rest of my life, and I’m not sure I want to be here. I know I should be thanking somebody for this, but I really don’t feel like it. Instead, I wish they hadn’t bothered.

I may not have all the time I thought I had.

Men who are addicted to the passions are like the torch-carrier running against the wind; his hands are sure to be burned.

I try to just take in every moment of being alive.

Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint.

Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.