To go through this life and see it through - what it really is - and not be insane or addicted, is a minor miracle for anyone.

I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.

When your whole world is shaken from all the risks we have taken, Dance with me, dance with me into the colors of the dusk.

I'm not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum 'n' bass record.

Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me my friend.

What enables me to believe in anything is hope.

Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.

Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.

I'm a living sunset, lightning in my bones.

Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.

As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery

He could not say goodbye to these three rooms as he could to a house he had loved: hotel rooms accepted departures emotionlessly.

When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.

But so often, before words can rise to the mind to imply the ineffable, the ineffable has effed off.

You should only expect something from your efforts.

The key to human happiness lies within our own state of mind, and so too do the primary obstacles to that happiness.

The Christian principles on which the country was primarily founded are rarely consulted other than for formalities of state, derision, or for the purpose of contrasts in the making of new laws.

Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.

In vain our labours are, whatsoe'er they be, unless God gives the Benediction.

Tea is nought but this: first you heat the water, then you make the tea. Then you drink it properly. That is all you need to know.

Learn the Arabic language; it will sharpen your wisdom.