Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

When we involve others in spontaneous acts of kindness, we go from being strangers to becoming a united team connected at the heart level.

It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.

When I began painting, all my paintings were of words which were gutteral utterances like Smash, Boss, Eat. Those words were like flowers in a vase.

All I have is my performance, I try to feed in the best of everything that I could possibly do into those 90 minutes and to make a live entertainment show out of it.

I wonder why he shot me.

There is no darkness as dark as a great light corrupted.

I'm in a position where - I mean, not a lot of people are in a very fortunate position - where I kind of have the power to choose what I want to do in a way.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.