Why, a moral truth is a hollow tooth Which must be propped with gold.

Work for your own soul's sake.

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

In time you shall see Fate approach you In the shape of your own image in the mirror.

Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.

To love is to find your own soul Through the soul of the beloved one.

There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived the great range of life.

The tongue may be an unruly member-- But silence poisons the soul.

To this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.

The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanished; And what is love but a rose that fades?

I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea. And the silence of the city when it pauses, And the silence of a man and a maid, And the silence for which music alone finds the word.

To be successful, you must leave the church walls behind and go out

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well and yet words are not deeds.

The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the [World War II] , and the whole industry became more backward-looking.

And what is it, thought I, after all! It’s only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.

If you have ever spray-painted your girlfriends name on an overpass, you might be a redneck.

I don't put labels on myself.

I slammed the door in the child's face, a horrific scream trapped in my throat.

Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.

the suppression of war is not the equivalent of peace.

Big doors swing on little hinges.