In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

The Lord God is my sacred safety.

Always having what we wantmay not be the best good fortuneHealth seems sweetestafter sickness, foodin hunger, goodnessin the wake of evil, and at the endof daylong labor sleep.

Rewrite your major goals every day, in the present tense, exactly as if they already existed

Once in a lifetime a really beautiful song comes along ... Until it does, I'd like to do this one.

If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble.

I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.

I think writing is one of the toughest things.

The founder brought the laws from the lawgiver; the faithful are meant to announce the laws to the lawgiver.

Disney's really incredible on story.

I allowed the actors to have freedom and sometimes change words if they needed to or thought that another word was more current.