Ships are my arrows, the sea my bow, the world my target.

Knowledge is power is time is money.

I would prefer a sword to fight duel, but a pen to plan a war.

A man.A really manly man with a lot of mannishness in his manliness.

Chains of gold are still chains.

Marriage is supposed to be a union between two equals who love and support each other, not a master-slave relationship in which the man commands a docile woman.

Then don't you dare tell me my dreams are insane! Because my dreams are what I live for!

Life is not about living the safer option. Life is about living a life worth living.

His lips reached mine and enveloped them, soft as velvet and yet unyielding.

His silent, stony face was only inches away now. He was so near, so terribly near – and then he moved to close the last bit of distance.

Only stupid men would want stupid wives!

The more important one feels the greater the illusion is.

Even in my age now, I'm the same as before and just as fearful I only learn how to pretend to be strong

Messenger of sympathy and love, Servant of parted friends, Consoler of the lonely, Bond of the scattered family, Enlarger of the common life.

Sometimes I get ideas for lyrics in anyplace, but I work a lot in the studio. So I collect little bits of lyrics. I go through the box of lyrics I have and see if something fits.

I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.

When all else fails, and to stand firm seems impossible, stand on the wood of the Cross; it will float with you.

I took two years away from making films to write a novel.

Fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.

For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them