It is harder to cut our gains than to cut our losses.

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.

To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing.

Happiness is the moment when you cease to make an inventory of joys; it is a glow, a brightness - never a list.

Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the expected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you knew it was going to be?

Endurance is frequently a form of indecision.

The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.

When you look in the mirror, do you look at yourself or for yourself?

And it was then that I realized that families might be the ones who pick us up time and again but strangers also rescue us-even if they don't know they're doing so.

The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat of all their deepest desires, is simply impudent nonsense.

You see, a potter can only mold the clay when it lies completely in his hand. It requires complete surrender.

Vegas; one of the few places still encouraging men in their fifties to dress like their in a boy-band from the 80's.

Obviously like many of us, I love music, and I hate music sometimes.

Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]

We eat a lot of lean meat and fresh vegetables.

My role as a producer is very specific. It's maintaining the creative truthfulness, day in and day out.

I am always thirsting for beautiful, beautiful, beautiful music. I wish I could make it. Perhaps there isn't any music on earth like what I picture to myself.