Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind... but as a path for realisation and salvation.

Singing instrumental music is most important because, while you play an instrument, you are singing through the instrument... actually, you are singing inside.

Ben knew that no matter how far you run, you're still yourself when you get there.

When you are pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen, brush the honey off your nose and spruce yourself up as best you can, so as to look Ready for Anything.

[All] the manly virtues were oppressed by the servile and pusillanimous reign of the monks.

Can anyone receive Jesus into his heart and not die?

I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.

Supreme happiness consists in self-content.

The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in art.

Man will take anything you like, except warning.

As we've said, it's not a coincidence that Fear Itself, Schism, and other big stories end at the same time. This is the first brick in the next road.

Do not pour guilt into someone's psyche, and don't let anyone tamper with your conscience.