Once a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might as well be struck dumb, for people do not listen to the wind.

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

I am a man ruled by music- I live, die, fight and survive for it.

I want to give you all of me. But will you want all of me when you realize I’m in pieces?

Emotion is the unseen transported on the unseen effecting everything".

I call it sacred geometry. When everything's just right and it feels really balanced, so that when it unfolds to the next part, you feel totally familiar and at ease within the song.

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

You cannot expect miracles to happen overnight, be patient, be loving and little by little the change you seek will come.

The idea will be to find of focus on crime and issues where there's not a lot of - where Donald Trump can kind of get people's emotions.

Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of being anxious or estranged, just being present in the world.

Most men die many times in their lives. The man we become invariably slaughters the child we once were. His knowledge of the world murders the babe's innocence. from Time Untime by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Custom doth make dotards of us all.