The secret to excitement is discovering new paths, and having the courage to take them.

You fit into melike a hook into an eyea fish hookan open eye

I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone.

Singing instrumental music is most important because, while you play an instrument, you are singing through the instrument... actually, you are singing inside.

Fascism is not an article for export.

I like the stroke seat. I want to be there. I want to have the race come down to a short distance and be the person to make the difference. I can't stand to be behind and I don't want to lose.

... the novelist is bound by the reasonable possibilities, not the probabilities, of his culture.

When you're in a band that's so big when you're young, you kind of lose your identity a little bit. You just become part of the band. I just needed to get away from it.

For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.

Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.

It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.