In science, mistakes always precede the truth

I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

Shakespeare was so ahead of his time that people still don't talk that way.

Water may be extremely dirty, yet its nature remains clear.

Family jokes though rightly cursed by strangers are the bond that keeps most families alive.

What is a shame is that there isn't stuff that is as great as 'Oz' on a consistent level around today.

My job is to make myself available to play to the best of my ability. Mentally, I've got to stay ready to play every day.

There's still a feeling that uncensored emotions make a good song. They don't. Pure emotion is just somebody screaming at you, or crying. It doesn't communicate anything.

At the (record company) meeting Paul just kept mithering on about what we were going to do, so in the end I just said, 'I think you're daft. I want a divorce.'

He who loses an opportunity is like the man who lets a bird fly from his hand, for he will never recover it.

I was part of the first wave of singer/songwriters but I was also in that first wave of singer/songwriters who experienced the music industry when technology started to take over.

Love the people you think you'd want to be with in the hereafter.