In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

I finally concluded that all failure was from a wobbling will rather than a wobbling wheel.

We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of symmetry and ultimate success.

She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.

God is action - let us be like God.

If I am asked to explain why I learned the bicycle I should say I did it as an act of grace, if not of actual religion.

Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness of motion which is perhaps the most fascinating feature of material life.

The onset of adulthood is an organic, creeping process. No one wakes up one day and decides, "Lo, on this day I shall forever put away childish things and begin clipping coupons to go to Wal-Mart.

The question is, what colour will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying?

Cars mean nothing to me. I'm not a car guy.

The value of achievement lies in the achieving.

If I'm working on one thing, then that's all that there is going on, and there's no such thing as a side project to me. It's 100 percent.

And when you're young you want to fit in. Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating.

I'm very much a traditionalist, but I think it's important to know about tradition so that you can evolve the music you are deciding to make.

No matter how many times you have failed you must keep going forward. Only when you have become humble will you begin to grasp the meaning of life.

I like people more undone than made up. Patricia Arquette is the ultimate. She's not anorexic or perfectly tan, she's not trying to be anything but what she is, and that's the most sexy thing.

Angry Black White Boy is bananas! Actually, it's a banana split with razor blades in it. Adam Mansbach is the white Richard Wright, and Angry Black White Boy is our generation's Native Son.