To ignore your conscience is to invite trouble.

In the theatre the audience want to be surprised - but by things that they expect.

Men are always sincere. They change sincerities, that's all.

When we are not rich enough to be able to purchase happiness, we must not approach to near and gaze on it in shop windows.

To lead others out of darkness, let them see your light.

To have grown wise and kind is real success.

Men give their confidence at once, but never their money.

God created the world, but it is the devil who keeps it going.

To live happily with other people one should ask of them only what they can give.

A critic is a virgin who would teach Don Juan how to make love.

Wearing a hat confers undeniable authority over those without one.

Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.

Sometimes the purpose of the rose is simply to draw attention to the rose.

To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.

Influence is like water. Always flowing somewhere.

I am so excited. I love IIFA. I think it's great to meet all the people from your fraternity in one place, that too out of the country.

Vengeance is a personal reaction. But not one that government can indulge in.

A gut-string classical Spanish guitar, a sweet, lovely little lady. The smell of it. Even now, to open a guitar case, when it's an old wooden guitar, I could crawl in and close the lid.

Memory is sweet. Even when it’s painful, memory is sweet.

And a utility belt! I'm like an asthmatic Batman!

Imaginative compassion for that which is other than myself is a constant artistic and ethical discipline.