Unless we learn to know ourselves, we run the danger of destroying ourselves.

So we couldn't mingle with them, but we could eavesdrop. We got our knowledge that way--we caught it like germs.

The urge to fight, to maul, to murder: it is the greatest cancer that afflicts mankind. It obliterates the body of the victim, and the spirit of the the one who strikes the blow. I have seen it...

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.

I have been able to get a small audience. It's not the huge audience, but it's enough to make it possible to play. I appreciate that.

I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix's drummer when I was in high school, but I graduated in 1970, the year he died.

I want people to see some of their own humanity no matter who they are.

Apparently, there is no bad economic turn a conservative cannot do unto his buddy in the working class, as long as cultural solidarity has been cemented over a beer.