Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.

The law is not a 'light' for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.

When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water.

It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!

The man who tells lies hides the truth, but the man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.

When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks toward us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

I am used to hear bad men misuse the name of God, yet God exists.

Good marriages are made in heaven. Or some such place.

Doin' nothing's a dangerous occupation.

Even the boy who cried wolf as right about the wolf once.

Once you talk to your brain and emotions, thus how is going to respond.

My enthusiasms ... constitute my reserves my unexploited resources perhaps my future.

My whole life has been about changing negatives into positives. I got famous, then I got cancer, and now I live to talk about it. Sometimes the best gifts come in the ugliest packages.

I want to make a difference with people who want to make a difference, doing something that makes a difference.

Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.

Fear of failure and criticism can be crippling. Don't let others' negativity take away your joy.

While I live, every criminal must die.

I can't wait to front my band with these new songs and play for fans, but I've decided to keep my day job too.