It is very important not to become hard. The artist must always have one skin too few in comparison to other people, so you feel the slightest wind.

The verb 'to love' in Persian is 'to have a friend.' 'I love you' translated literally is 'I have you as a friend,' and 'I don't like you' simply means 'I don't have you as a friend.

Of all musical instruments the human voice is the most beautiful, for it is made by God.

Ignorance is your opponent, fear is your enemy, vice is your adversary, virtue is your friend, and wisdom is your helper.

Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.

Oh my God. I didn't. I couldn't have. No. no, no. Holy Crap, I did. I just shot Jason Pierce in the chest with a taser.

The human being must always be central, not the products and objects of his skill and energy.

It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds.

I've played rugby at school a bit. I didn't play football at school; I played football after school.

Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret.

There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.

I'm not like a religious exerciser. My parents go down to the gym everyday now, and I'm the one that stays upstairs. But I definitely need to start exercising.

I want to think that there are better ways of obviating murder than to resort to capital punishment, but I realise that this may be wishful thinking on my part.