You can only control so much, in the end the rest is up to fate.

Don't judge someone's attitude until you've felt their pain.

Be careful who you trust, the devil was once an angel.

Trust is earned, respect is given, and loyalty is demonstrated. Betrayal of any one of those is to lose all three.

Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it.

Any definition of a successful life must include service to others.

Kill your enemies with success and bury them with a smile.... Never fails.

No matter the situation, never let your emotions overpower your intelligence.

Maturity comes with experience, not age.

I'm strong because I know my weaknesses. I'm wise because I've been foolish. I laugh because I've known sadness.

People are not who they say but rather who their actions reveal them to be....Be smart about it. Don't fall for the bullshit.

A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.

Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.

Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.

Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers.

The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.

Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to London, and the Orchestra is going to perform the score.

You never know what's going to happen in this world. I'll just keep my mouth shut. That's a good idea.

Ethics is not about the way things are, it is about the way things ought to be.

In proportion as man approaches the outer rim, he becomes lost in details, and the more he is preoccupied with details, the less he can understand them.

I've been a fool to allow dreams to become great expectations.