it is hard for me to believe that Cornelius Vanderbilt did not sense, at some point in time, in some dim billiard room of his unconscious, that when he built “The Breakers” he damned himself.

The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.

Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?

You don’t have to know where you’re going. In fact, it’s better if you don’t.

Change starts with awareness and once infected with knowledge the mind can never return to ignorance.

man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer

I love your lips when they're wet with wine and red with wicked desire

Again the violet of our early days Drinks beauteous azure from the golden sun, And kindles into fragrance at his blaze.

In this world there are two great sources of strength. One rests with those who are not afraid to kill. The other rests with those who are not afraid to love.

In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.

I think most musicians do like to have a laugh.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.