Worry is a habit that shatters our peace of mind and needlessly drains our energy, a form of mental masturbation without any benefits.

Pausing gives us the opportunity to arrive at an internal place from which we can choose wisely what needs to be done or said, and then do so gently.

To Die is not as bad as not having lived

It is necessary for him who would endure existence with patience that he should conceive himself to be something - that he should be persuaded he is not a cipher in the muster-roll of man.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, 'What are we going to do?' but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that's nothing.

The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.

It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.

In this life we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice.

All the characters of the Passion agree to the year 34; and that is the only year to which they all agree.

When my first daughter was born, I had to figure out a new way of [making music] so that I wouldn't wake her up.

Americans understand that one of our great national strengths is innovation. Great innovators - Benjamin Franklin, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and others - are household names.

There is a lot of music out there that you can play side by side and you can't hear the personality - that has a timeline on it, for sure.