If you are touched by music you are touched by love in a very pure way.

The guitar is a meditative tool to touch God and find love within yourself.

To play the guitar well is easy, to play the guitar poorly is difficult.

You should only play pieces that you're willing to marry.

To increase speed you must increase the amount of rest, peace, calmness that you can maintain. That is the secret to playing fast.

There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music.

the decisive movement toward corporate capitalism began in 1895-1896.

There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I've made a great living doing the things I want to do.

Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.

Really proud of it. A great campaign. And I'm really pleased with the organization and the thousands of South Carolinians that worked on my behalf. And I'm very gracious and humbled.

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?

I want to go to the World Cup. I want to go to the Masters. I want to go... anywhere.

Everyone makes mistakes and everyone deserves a second chance.

Besides, you're a cat. It's your nature to think you're the center of the universe.

One of the main reasons for the existence of philosophy is not that it enables you to find truth (it can never do that) but that it does provide you a refuge for definitions.

Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is in their interest to go to war.