What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death?

All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning.

Anger is something you should only vent in front of intimates, and friends and relations. Never be angry in front of strangers because you lose face.

You never know . . . that's what makes life interesting.

So much of 'normal, civilized' life is bull that you can't imagine... What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd laugh at.

Guard yourself and your conscience no one else will and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you far more surely than any bullet!

What can I do to help thee?" he asked. "Believe there is a tomorrow.

Life and death are the same...Leave karma to karma.

How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.

The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world - and the most dangerous.

.., by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction.

The biggest loopholes created in the world become evident when people who were born to lead do not eventually become leaders and never know it!

I tend to get a little quirkier and crazier with my lyrics and come from a different angle when I'm writing for myself.

Generally speaking, anything that the human mind can conceive can ultimately be produced.

There have been errors in the administration of the most enlightened men.

It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven!

I once performed The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to about 15 sea captains. The song was about a ship that broke in half and sank.

It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes.

The Samurai is the first to suffer anxiety for human society, and he is the last to seek personal pleasure.

When you encounter that first love, a young love, you do feel that your story is original. You are utterly convinced that your story has never been told before, because it hasn't.