If you are busy pleasing everyone, you are not being true to yourself

Familiarity makes the lion more dangerous.

Even coal shimmers in the light

There is no treasure like the human heart.

It is the dirt within men’s hearts that is most offensive; the filth you cannot see.

There is no place for innocence on the battlefield.

It is the heart that has been pierced that feels the most.

What is courage without risk... It wouldn’t really be courage, would it?

What good is a smooth tongue without sharp teeth?

Hate engenders loneliness and despair

Books are like bound dreams waiting to be released

Look for the extraordinary in the ordinary.

Take a stand and command to demand what's grand.

I measure my life out in books." "You should be measuring your life by living. Correction: you shouldn't be measuring your life. What's the point?

"You are what you eat." Nothing else. Never. If you are nourished with cow's milk and later with herbs, you'll become someone whose whole life is good only for being exploited by others.

That’s why you call it a budget. You set it and you don’t budge.

I've just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn't qualify as a hit record-but it's really the best single I've ever had.

It is not economic development; it's about taking money out of the consumer economy and shipping it off to Las Vegas

Every one regards his duty as a troublesome master from whom he would like to be free.

The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion.

The live concerts are everything and I’m very grateful that most of my career, I’m a live artist, I’ve been doing this. So I’ve traveled quite a lot, played in - I never stopped playing.