The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.

No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.

Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love.

If you know how a man deals with his money, how he gets it, spends it, keeps it, shares it, you know one of the most important things about him.

Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love.

There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.

Always remember that however good you may be, the game is your master.

When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.

Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight.

Don't aim, listen. Don't run, walk. Don't doubt, Move. Your heart will guide you in the right direction.

Music is only sound expressing certain patterns so to what extent is that sound architecture and to what extent theatre?

We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.

take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning

I've never played a character where I've had so much fun on the physical end. I don't want to say I like it too much but it's fun having a gun on you and getting to manhandle men.

To get my sound in the studio, I double guitar tracks, and when it gets to the lead parts, the rhythm drops out, just like it's live. I'm very conscious of that.

This is one of my big things of creative pursuits. You have your idea you want to do, but then you got to figure out what does this thing want to be? You got to let it lead you a little.

Music is the journey. You never arrive in music; the work is never over.

It is a violent sport that we choose as men, and that we as parents allow our children to play.

A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.