We are our own fates.- Our deeds are our own doomsmen.- Man's life was made not for creeds but actions.

Those true eyes, Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise, The sweet soul shining through them.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

The world is a nettle; disturb it, it stings. Grasp it firmly, it stings not.

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

We may live without friends; we may live without books But civilized men cannot live without cooks.

However we pass Time, he passes still, Passing away whatever the pastime, And, whether we use him well or ill, Some day he gives us the slip for the last time.

Do not think that years leave us and find us the same!

No true love there can be without Its dread penalty--jealousy.

The world is filled with folly and sin, And Love must cling, where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy enough to win; But one isn't loved every day.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

I pretend he doesn’t exist, and he does the same with me.

Passion gives you direction. It serves as an inner compass that links you to action.

Sometimes destiny switches the cards on you so that while you're busy escaping from the dog, you find yourself facing the wolf

Religion is never the problem it's the people who use it to gain power.

I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet.

But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.

When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm pals.

Mysticism is just tomorrow's science dreamed today.

I think there's so many little specific things in the script [of "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore"]. And the script was also structured so beautifully that I didn't want to mess with it.

The most beautiful woman in the world is the one who protects and supports other women