We can invent only with memory.

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

I am thankful that thorns have roses.

All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.

If you are constrained to playing by the rules while your opponent is not, then you are certain to lose.

There is no book that has had as much opposition as the Bible. Men have laughed at it, they have scorned it, they have ridiculed it, they have made laws against it.

Forget all the equipment, forget the music, at the end of the day it's just literally frequencies and their effects on your brain. That's what's everyone's essentially after.

The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things as he wishes them to be that he rejoices.

I've been making music ever since, but it was never something I thought I could make any money doing.

How I grew up, everybody was telling me, "You can't do this, you can't get tattoos, you've got to look a certain way." Now, I'm like, "Why?"

Learn to be thankful to everyone, to the entire creation, even to your enemy and also to those who insult, because they all help you to grow

Religion is not something I like to talk about publicly. One reason is the politics, but also I think spirituality is deeply personal.

I've never had anything done on my face. I've never had dermabrasion or peels or injections of any kind, nothing.

Going there [Japan] in the early 80s was quite a culture shock. I think the bombardment of Shinjuku and all that would have filtered through, which certainly informed things we later filmed.