Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

...So let us welcome peaceful evening in.

An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.

Grief is itself a medicine.

How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

We all flee in hope of finding some ground of security

Now that I think I know what I'm doing, I'm scared. Before this, I just didn't know any better.

Judge the spirit of the prophecy before you judge the truth of the word.

Dreaming is escaping. Daydreaming is a form of self protection. Dissociation is Survival

Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.

I don't mind 800 million Chinese drinking a bottle [of Coca-Cola] a day, but I don't want them to bring back the empties.

Ambition has to be joined with expectancy. A sense that you have a dream for yourself that you believe can happen.

At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.

To say he has a glass chin is an insult to glass.

I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.