It is the understanding that sees and hears; it is the understanding that improves everything, that orders everything, and that acts, rules, and reigns.

Only mind has sight and hearing; all things else are deaf and blind.

The wise man must be wise before, not after, the event.

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

The gods sell to us all the goods which they give us.

Love, in short is the most dangerous emotion human can experience

I sang my song called "In This Song." David Foster wrote the song for me. I thought that I should sing a ballad song.

Well, sometimes when you say you want to be like everybody else, you're really saying that you're not.

A wonderful bird is a pelican, His bill will hold more than his belican. He can take in his beak Food enough for a week; But I'm damned if I see how the helican.

How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest fruit of religion.

I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.

The wounded limb shrinks from the slightest touch; and a slight shadow alarms the nervous. [Lat., Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia tactum: Vanaque sollicitis incutit umbra metum.]

Live at the empty heart of paradox. I'll dance with you there, cheek to cheek.

No man can be judge to his own cause.

Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly.