Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

The problem was, she wanted to get loved so badly that she couldn't tell it wasn't love.

I've never needed government to hold my hand.

In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.

No fight is hopeless till it has been fought.

Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.

I don't want to sound arrogant or anything, but I just always knew that my career would be playing music.

If you want to see God move make a move.

I've written plenty of scripts that sucked.

Creativity is narcissism. Creativity is falling in love with one's self as you create. It's self-indulgent.