Lessons taught but never learned, all around us anger burns. Guide the future by the past. Long ago the mould was cast.

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand... prejudice, fear and ignorance walk hand-in-hand.

...The important thing is: if you fail once, or if your luck is bad this time, the dream is still there. A dream is only over if you give it up-or if it comes true.

From the point of ignition. To the final drive. The point of the journey is not to arrive.

I think everything I do has Howard Roark [hero of The Fountainhead] in it, you know, as much as anything. The person I write for is Howard Roark.

You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray without surrender. You can fight without ever winning, but never ever win without a fight.

If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum.

A spirit with a vision is a dream with a mission.

Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.

How can anybody be enlightened? Truth is after all so poorly lit

Love does not pay attention to timetables or knock when it is convenient for you. True love shows up unexpectedly, bags fully packed, daring you to offer it a place to stay.

Will suspected Jem was in fact cleverer than he was himself - but he lacked Will's tendency to assume the absolute worst about people and proceed from there.

The sword has no strength unless the hand that holds it has courage

Good books are never finished but abandoned.

Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.

I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.

We do not like to praise, and seldom praise anyone without self-interest.

Swaraj is not a product of excitement or intoxication. Swaraj will be the natural and inevitable result of business like habits.

To-day is thine to spend, but not to-morrow; Counting on morrows breedeth bankrupt sorrow: O squander not this breath that Heaven hath lent thee; Make not too sure another breath to borrow.

The point of my music is to make people feel good. When I do it right, it makes me feel good too.