Practical application is the only mordant which will set things in the memory. Study without it is gymnastics, and not work, which alone will get intellectual bread.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

The Antichrist . . . will be the embodiment of evil, and will have great power to deceive those who choose to follow him.

Private life is private life. Off the pitch, there is private life, and the rest is social life, where of course you have to behave responsibly.

Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.

Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.

When I was in Van Halen I was hitting notes that were out of my range. I never went for those registers before until Eddie pulled it out of me.

Social marketing is now a 24-7 job.

I was never accepted into certain parts of New England society because my grandfather was an Irish barkeep.

Sometimes, what probably makes writing songs really easy is that I've generally been attracted to situations that aren't always the healthiest.

There are secret opportunities hidden inside every failure.

Since therefore all things are ordered in subserviency to the good of man, they are so ordered by Him that made both man and them.