You can enjoy encouragement coming from outside but you cannot need for it to come from outside.

Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try and perhaps failing.

It is what you are inside that matters. You yourself are your only real capital.

A mafia could never kill an alliance. That’s how you become safe from the enemy, you befriend them.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other. It is a joy to be an artist, but it doesn't mean very much unless that work is somehow useful in some way and contributes to others.

It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.

It's possible to be thankful wherever you find yourself.

A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks.

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

Trust not to outward show. [Lat., Fronti nulla fides.]

Music is what I love, take that away from me and I really got nothing.

Each year represents new challenges and obstacles. You have to adjust.

Oh God, make me good, but not yet.