To live is like to love - all reason is against it and all healthy instinct for it.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.

That boy was going to make the world turn, and the stars would fall like rain.

Be the compassion you seek.

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.

Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit...

Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work.

World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated.

I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage.

When you make something fetish, ashes and dusts will laugh at you, because they know even the most valuable fetishes will turn into dusts and ashes!

I want fifteen referees at this fight…because there ain’t no one man who can keep up with the pace I’m gonna set except me