Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

Wedlock is a padlock.

He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain.

Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves.

He is wise that can make a friend of a foe.

Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.

He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.

Good words cool more than cold water.

Where love fails we espy all faults.

BE OPEN TO new thoughts, to new people, to new principles, to new ideas, to new experiences. "NEW" MAKES US GROW

Where there is no mathematics, there is no freedom.

I don't think goodness is something that you learn. If you're left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble.

I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.

For me, when I'm coming up to a place where I have to make somebody up, it's almost like driving and taking your hands off the wheel.

I have gone insane. I won't be talking with you for a while.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Parents must refuse to cooperate with any psychological evaluation of their children in school.

Victor Wooten is the Carlos Castaneda of music

The art of art... is simplicity.