To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.

Fits of anger, vexation, and bitterness against ourselves tend to pride and they spring from no other source than self-love, which is disturbed and upset at seeing that it is imperfect.

Shakespeare's Iago could be played as a soul in hell, driven, dark and desperate, willing to do anything, willing to use anyone, in order to escape from that hell.

I am amazed by how many individuals mess up every new day with yesterday. They insist on bringing into today the failures of yesterday and in so doing, they pollute a potentially wonderful day.

By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.

You can't compartmentalize unforgiveness. You can't control sin. You can't manage sin. Sin is never satisfied with the amount of you it possesses.

Relationships are like a book, in that they are for learning.

If a man cannot prove his religion in the valley, it is not worth anything.

If our company is to survive and prosper, over the long term we must get our share of the youth market.

Whenever I see something that looks like it could be good - whether it's on vinyl, CD or cassette - if it's not too expensive, I'll take a chance.