Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.

The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.

The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.

It is rarely in the world's history that its ideal has been one of joy and beauty. The worship of pain has far more often dominated the world.

To call an artist morbid because he deals with morbidity as his subject-matter is as silly as if one called Shakespeare mad because he wrote ‘King Lear.

It is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.

Most personalities have been obliged to be rebels. Half their strength has been wasted in friction.

Music is my biggest passion and Ive just been obsessed with it. Like, always.

I am about to - or I am going to - die; either expression is correct.

If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret.

We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.

I yell at the players if I don't like the way they are playing. But when they're playing well, I hug them.

Music looks very formidable to people outside of it and it looks like it's this realm of spooky genius.

Setting out rules for waging war (the Geneva Convention).

I live before the audience of One-before others I have nothing to gain, nothing to lose, nothing to prove.

Supporting customers through multiple channels is no longer an option for financial services organizations; it's a necessity.

Don't change for anyone. The people that matter don't care, and the people that care don't matter.