The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.

Love cannot live where there is no trust.

The mind knows only what lies near the heart.

Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three

None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.

We hold there is no worse enemy to a state than he who keeps the law in his own hands.

Without pain, there is no call for anger, much less rampaging.

The longest travel-path leads to the sacred-destination.

I think, as an artist, whether you're making people laugh or cry or be frustrated or excited - the fact that you're generating some sort of emotion out of an audience is, to me, worth it.

I told him he'd have a heart attack a year ago, but unfortunately he lived a year longer.

Put your money where your mouth is.

My mother preferred trees to certain kinds of people. Increasingly, as I get older I have to admit that I occasionally understand her preference.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.

But I mean, again, Zappa's far more musical than the Bonzos ever were.

The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit.

Let us forget the past - this is the only way to be genuinely surprised.