Lord but I dislike poetry. How can anyone remember words that aren't put to music?

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.

Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.

She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.

Metal rusts, music lasts forever.

Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.

No hard feelings about that time in the Crucible when you mixed my salts and I was nearly blind for a day. No. No, really, drink up!

He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.

ESPN, is having the ability to foretell future outcomes in sports.

My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

He looked from the phone to the unconscious figure of the Salesman. "What did you do to him?" he asked. "He got the wrong number," Alex said.

Long before I became 'rich and famous' I just sat round drinking wine and staring at the walls.

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.

Art is an indecent exposure of the consciousness.

I used to say, "I sure hope things will change." Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change

Part of me misses the days when we have four channels in England and we were all talking about everything all the time.

A lot of people have misconceptions about what the surgeon general does.

Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.