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

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.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

Consistency in action is easy once you convert your daily disciplines and activities into habits.

When you see zombies, they're typically in a horde. A big group close together, as if they were just holding hands before you saw them and they quickly let go.

Plants live; how much they feel and enjoy, who shall say?

If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.

I didn't have a very religious family.

I had to take a bit of a break and fast for a while, but then I found myself very, very hungry when I got back to [song-writing].

This is the gift of the landscape photograph, that the heart finds a place to stand.

Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids.

They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?

Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.