The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

Why do people respect the package rather than the man?

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

The thing I fear most is fear.

I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

The home viewing experience is slightly different and there's room for these kinds of extra excursions.

Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game.

In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself.

When we take no responsibility for any aspect of our past, we limit our ability to respond in the present and the future.

I, who thought to sink, was caught up into love, and taught the whole of life in a new rhythm.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

My responsibility in the past, when I was sleeping outside every night, was just to survive. My responsibility now is to stay real, stay grounded, and just tell the truth.

Sometimes, keeping track of people. It's always a weird combination of worrying so much about the outside world, and not... you have to be more aware of the inner circle, the folks that matter.

Music, I think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to find out what's really there.