If I simply do my best, I cannot complain even if I am taken to hell.

I played with children so that I could learn from them.

First character, then ability.

As I have said before, I had no illusions about my performing ability. But I did not know that my despair was brought about not because I had no talent but because I did not know how to develop it.

To deceive oneself is worse than to deceive others." These harsh words pierced me to the core.

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don't trouble it, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent.

In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.

If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert.

The Queen is by much the most powerful of the forces.

I started being me about the songs, not writing objectively, but subjectively. I think it was Dylan who helped me realize that - not by any discussion or anything, but by hearing his work.

Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event.

Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day.

As the render is to the building, and the blueprint to the machine, so sport is to social existence.