Nothing is more beautiful than the sound of the guitar.

Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.

Even in winter it shall be green in my heart.

Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.

I tell my piano the things I used to tell you

Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!

Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.

Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.

Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.

It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.

He cared less, so they cared more. He said it was beautiful. I knew he was broken.This was his game.

I was stark raving mad, and my family was too polite to mention it. That's what living with the Yamanis does to people. They get so well-mannered they won't mention you're crazy.

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

The saying goes that the gods leave a town once it is captured.

There is nothing as certain as silence, stillness, and solitude to introduce you to the secrets of yourself.

In my worst moments, I try to think about loving instead of hating. Creation versus destruction, know what I'm sayin'?

At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.

God's word is: 'He who strives never perishes.' I have implicit faith in that promise. Though, therefore, from my weakness I fail a thousand times, I shall not lose faith.

The university is a vast public utility which turns out future workers in today's vineyard, the military-industrial complex.

Ethics seems a morass which we have to cross, but get hopelessly bogged in when we make the attempt.