The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.

One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.

Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.

A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.

Never promise more than you can perform.

Because there's no way on earth she's going to make it through college unless she grows some serious ovaries and turns this train wreck around

I always want to make people dance so there'll always be an element of dance in my music.

One makes use of pigments, but one paints with one's feelings.

Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten

I'm still trying to figure out what the right line is between myself and the people I play. Sometimes I go too far one way or too far the other.

Any historical narrative is a bundle of silences.

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.

I'm not one for a lot of media attention.

We have to stop the idea that we are going to create something out of nothing, but instead attract to ourselves what is already here.