Soul, what have I to do with you?

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid!

The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.

Ones real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched.

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

Success comes from patience and passion.

Bad news should always come after lunch.. first thing in the morning everything left a bruise.

Thoughts are slippery fish in a cold shallow s

There is safety in the very heart of danger.

Most people decide to be a force of good when they either reach rock bottom, are trying to go to heaven, or find out that being good helps hold things together

Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.

Reality TV is the perfect antidote to people who don't have enough self-centered douchebags in their life.

Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.

I'm against fashionable thinking.

[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.