Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.

One dupe is as impossible as one twin.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.

A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.

Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.

Good and evil are so close as to be chained together in the soul.

Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.

The tragedy of the modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in realizing democracy.

One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.

God gives His toughest battles to His strongest soldiers.

Here’s my prediction: Ninety percent of what everyone will drink will be red wine, and one of the biggest markets will be China.

So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more.

I will keep a smile on my face and in my heart even when it hurts today.

Everyone's got their problems and their demons, but when we get onstage and play as five, that really all goes away, and that's really all I look at.

The way he shook his hips up there on that stage, but before that fateful day when he left Tennessee all of them were calling him the King.