True wisdom always leads us to please God.

If you want to know the value of a year, ask the student who was in the final year of his university education, when the lecturers went on strike and the school ended up closing for a year.

Sometimes I think to talk too much about music almost cheapens it

You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.

In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.

My definition of elegance is the achievement of a given functionality with a minimum of mechanism and a maximum of clarity.

In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.

I have no regrets because I know I did my best - all I could do.

It's absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It's a betrayal of whatever talent you have.

All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability?

I collect Victorian automata and coming across them in the dark does give you a little shudder.