Power is okay, and stupidity is usually harmless. Power and stupidity together are dangerous".

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.

Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.

She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.

Metal rusts, music lasts forever.

Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.

No hard feelings about that time in the Crucible when you mixed my salts and I was nearly blind for a day. No. No, really, drink up!

He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.

Some people like danger and adventure, some like to be free of civilization, and some like to live by their wits. It was those special people who headed west.

Never let anyone use your toothbrush or your pen. -Author Wllm Worth

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.

I live the life of the last Renaissance man.

A man who keeps on going; a man who keeps his eye on the ball.

I've pretty much done all I can here and, you know, God will carry me the rest of the way, so I'm pretty comfortable with that.

There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white.

What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet...

A fully blossomed human potential is enlightenment. It is becoming a child again, and coming back to your original nature.