Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air.

It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger – how much easier to understand the same price for the gash in your soul.

We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.

Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.

Hypocrites, ’ replied Cale, ‘I’ve come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are.

...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone.

Many are called, few are chosen.

The battle had been as hideous as you might expect between one side who were simply not afraid to die and another who regarded death as merely a door to the eternal life.

Forgiveness is the joy of friendship.

A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

I have got to look at the flip side of things, because, in a way, music is always a conversation, you know? It's a conversation between the musician and their tools and their technologies.

At fifty you realize that you are no longer a kid. I ignored forty. It was like I was almost at middle age. Maybe it's the baby boomer thing. But undeniably, I am a man. I have to accept [mortality].

It is important to make the fans that support me feel supported.

Most of the time, our limitations are self-imposed.

Without the cross we have a meaningless and powerless Christianity.

A constitution should be framed so as not to impede the action of government, nor force the government to its violation.

We're supposed to be making up this stuff, playing at being in love, not actually being in love.