You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.

Time goes on. So whatever you're going to do, do it. Do it now. Don't wait.

Better to be king for a night than a schmuck for a lifetime.

When you love someone you gotta trust them, there's no other way. You gotta give them the key to everything that's yours. Otherwise, what's the point?

I never walk into a place I don't know how to walk out of.

If you don't go, you'll never know.

You'll have time to rest when you're dead.

You don't need words to express feelings.

Passion should always trump common sense.

I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York. It's the most exciting city in the world now. That's the way it is. That's it.'

There is only one way to gain access to the truth and that is to not expect anything.

Pain is pain, babe. Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less.

When something bad happens to me I think I'm able to deal with it in a pretty good way. That makes me lucky. Some people fall apart at the first little thing that happens.

A world government with powers adequate to guarantee security is not a remote ideal for the distant future. It is an urgent necessity if our civilization is to survive.

There is nothing, indeed, which God will not do for a man who dares to step out upon what seems to be the mist; though as he puts his foot down he finds a rock beneath him.

I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of men's beginning to redeem themselves.

God be thanked for books! They are the voices of the distant and the dead.

It's funny, these days, if you want money, you can create an App or some kind of tech thing and make a billion dollars.

We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.

The present is only intelligible in the light of the past.

I really don’t want a compilation of sounds. I just need them to be songs.