You listen to people that love you and you listen to people that you trust. Most of all, you listen to yourself.

Every man at some point in his life is gonna lose a battle. He's gonna fight and he's gonna lose. But what makes him a man is that in the midst of that battle, he does not lose himself.

Right here, right now, God has placed you to do what you do best. Go all the way.

Are you suggesting that we reopen the Opera with a murder as an added attraction?

I am not in the habit of taking baritones to supper.

That's what character is, it's in the trying.

Success is not a goal, it's a byproduct.

If Jesus came back and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing-up.

His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.

Those who glitter with the glory of the hummingbird meaning death

Blame is a human concept, one of its blackest and most selfish and self-binding.

Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.

What I thought was unreal now, for me, seems in some ways to be more real than what I think to be real, which seems now to be unreal

If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.

This use of building blocks to generate internal models is a pervasive feature of complex adaptive systems.

Judicious books enlarge the mind and improve the heart.

If this universe is the House of God, then I must say it is quite a dark house despite several hundred billion suns!