The key to success isn't much good until one discovers the right lock to insert it in.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

The West can teach the East how to get a living, but the East must eventually be asked to show the West how to live.

Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.

Lean too much upon the approval of people, and it becomes a bed of thorns.

If ignorance is indeed bliss, it is a very low grade of the article.

Prudence is sometimes stretched too far, until it blocks the road of progress.

If the world knew how to use freedom without abusing it, tyranny would not exist.

The schools of the country are its future in miniature.

A road that does not lead to other roads always has to be retraced, unless the traveller chooses to rust at the end of it.

Harmony would lose its attractiveness if it did not have a background of discord.

And to see the white flash of Klaus's eyes as he whirled on her. For one stunned instant she stared at him, and then lightning crackled.From an empty sky.

Most people only have stray thoughts and it stays at that. But you’ve got power, darlin'. You flung out walking evil. Let's hope you can bring up a remedy too.

Riots happen because rationale is eclipsed by revenge.

Pointless, needless suffering and pain? I don’t suppose it would help if I told you that was the way life is. The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact.

I was fortunate to work with Corigliano for a few years in the mid nineties. Meeting and working with him during those formative years was an important experience.

We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity; we are not so wretched as we are base

Wars may be fought by decent men, but they're not won by them.

Alignment = Magic & Miracles ... Keep your standards high. YOU are worth it!

I think right now a lot of albums that are out there, they sound like mixtapes.