Success lasts only three seconds. After that you're the same as you were before you had it.

You never know who's going to be in the audience. You never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the first time, and you never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the last time.

When we all sing with one voice, the world will stop and listen.

Satan and all his agents, with all their combined strength and subtilty, cannot separate one soul from Christ.

In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it.

You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to perceive it.

There's no future in being poor.

I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack Nicholson or Jean Gabin.

I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want something. If you think I'm sick when I don't write, you can send for me to come and tell you.

We are left at the brink of our future each day and the only real choice we have is not to jump but instead make our path through the briar.

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

Those who are critical don’t like being criticized, and those who are insensitive have a deficiency in their senses.

ab Americo Inventore ...quasi Americi terram sive AmericamFrom Amerigo the discoverer ...as if it were the land of Americus, thus America.

In art, and in the higher ranges of science, there is a feeling of harmony which underlies all endeavor. There is no true greatness in art or science without that sense of harmony.

Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.

The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.

...the book is a manifesto to make the Web atone for the sins of computers and regain a level of simplicity that can put humanity at peace with its tools once again.

I think I'll paint roads on my front room walls to convince myself that I'm going places

I follow my instincts and my excitement.