If you combine all the spectral rays into a single beam, you get white light; and, if you combine all the virtues into a single beam, you get charity.

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.

Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.

If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.

Love is a boomerang that returns to the thrower's hand.

The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.

We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

Beyond the dark water of the womb there is an entire universe to be dealt with.

A person without her or his own truth ain't a person at all, Ida said. Anybody who tells you different—is a jackass, and no longer deserves to be called human being.

When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.

A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle.

I prefer artists who are creative more than artists who are technical, I think everybody would agree with that.

I'm very close to my family. Not like these big stars - not mentioning any names - who lose the plot and don't know who they are.

If you take your last album & try to copy it, then thats sure to hell the way to stagnation. And that makes me bored...and if I'm bored then the music is boring and so are the band!

I never saw so sweet a face. As that I stood before. My heart has left it dwelling place ... and can return no more.

A dream acting role would be Matt Damon in the Bourne series. I would love to do something like that!

bringing up children was]like living with a bunch of drunks...you really have to be on your toes all the time.