my soul is the mirror of the universe, and my body is its frame

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

it is a marvel that those red-roseleaf lips of yours should be made no less for the madness of music and song than for the madness of kissing.

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.

You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.

If I were to write a book about the progress of getting to a third film, it would be a long one.

Sometimes it is easier to see the light when you stand partly in the darkness.

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.

Los Angeles is a city looking for a ritual to join its fragments, and The Doors are looking for such a ritual also. A kind of electric wedding. We hide ourselves in the music to reveal ourselves.

There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe.

That's another interesting thing about music: It can mean anything.

You live in my heart where no one sees you but I do. That vision becomes this art.