There’s no arguing with a song that writes itself.

You can do anything…but before you can do anything, you have to do something.

Sometimes, if your opponent is determined to win the battle, let him win the wrong battle.

Regarding war and peace—the seed of each is planted in the other.

Regarding war and peace—the seeds of each are planted in the other.

All too often, our elegant political theories amount to nothing more than ideology triumphing over common sense.

We recognize authority based on whether we feel we could attain authority by the rules by which the authority was obtained.

Cooler heads prevail while things spin completely out of control.

Note from Alien cookbook: “The more intelligent the human is, the better it tastes.

If you can’t be brave in the face of adversity, at least be practical.

Amazing how too much passion in one part of your life can destroy passion in other parts of your life.

Clearly she was expected to say something, but panic at having to speak stole the thoughts from her head.

When I'm around animals, I don't pay attention to people.

Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.

Learning to cherish others is the best solution to our daily problems, and it is the source of all our future happiness and good fortune.

The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.

It takes a lot of money to make music and get it to people. It takes a lot of time to make a record sound good.

An archetypal gangster is always at a remove. We can't get into his mindset.

You have got to love yourself first. You have got to be ok on your own before you can be ok with somebody else. You have got to value yourself and know that you are worth everything.

I guess I'm not really involving my imagination to that of a circumstance or happening - I'm just kind of acknowledging it as an existence.

One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful even if it is only a floating ash.