My vocal cords lived their own life, wild and free.

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

The thing is, I don't even hate cops. To tell you the truth, I actually feel a little sorry for them.

Every Vision has its own rainbow.

It is not possible to say too much about Christ. But it is quite possible to say too little about hell.

Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.

I carry around such a load of non-specific guilt that every time the metal detector beeps, I always have a wild fear that this trip I absent-mindedly packed a Luger.

I'm not a real good musician, but I can write [a song] pretty well. I experiment once in a while to see what I can do. I find out the best I can do is stay with ballads.

Life is more important than art - quantity is only important in that the amount of activity is greater not the number of works.

I have worked all of my life, so I really don't have any hobbies.

Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements.

Charity is taking an ugly girl to lunch.