Music must be supported by the king and the princes, for the maintenance of the arts is their duty no less than the maintenance of the laws.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.

I carry the Sun in a Golden Cup, the Moon in a Silver Bag.

I believe in the possibility of happiness if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions including optimism.

True vision is always twofold. It involves emotional comprehensions as well as physical perception.

What you care about [movie] is whether it's moving you, or whether you're caught up in it.

You must attain a neurological and biological serenity in chaos. You cannot let yourself be sabotaged by adrenaline.

Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.

Sometimes I was so funny I couldn’t stand myself.

The worst drivers are women in people carriers, men in white vans and anyone in a baseball cap. That's just about everyone.

It is an old dream: To travel on the back of a benevolent sea beast down to some secret underwater garden.

Leadership means bringing people together in pursuit of a common cause, developing a plan to achieve it, and staying with it until the goal is achieved.