Comedy doesn't really have any meaning without sadness. The most meaningful comedy comes from some really serious pathos.

When levitation fails, a ladder prevails.

We're at that kind of moment where we really have to understand that everyone is totally connected and everyone is important.

Open your heart.Tear it apart.

I feel I have to play a role in the transformation of my thoughts. Music is the most powerful way for me to do that, through my own music, through listening to other people's music.

success awaits those who steadfastly commit to any requisite sacrifice

Everyone, no matter how historically famous or modernly praised, has no idea about the ultimate truth of what it means to be human.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia.

Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.

History is full of examples of people compromising their beliefs in order to keep themselves alive.

The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.

If you want to effect change, start small.

A Library goes on as far as thought can reach.