....because of all the things in this world that can hurt you and knock you down, I will never be one of them.

The loss of psalmody in the church is one of the early indicators of the loss of faith.

Sometimes you feel as though you've slandered yourself, but the joke's on them.

My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.

I guess a certain contingent of the musicians in London at the beginning of the '70s were fed up with denim and the hippies. And I think we kind of wanted to go somewhere else.

Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.

No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in art the self becomes self-forgetful in order to meet the demands of the thing seen and the thing being made.

The rise of National Socialism is the protest of a people against a State that denies the right to work.

If you're ever in doubt, throw a pepper in the air. If it fails to come down, you have gone mad, so don't trust in anything.

I like to think that we've got a plan, so let's stick to it. That said, once we've stuck to it, we're allowed as much improvisation as anyone cares to indulge themselves in.

Lent is a good time for sacrificing. Let us deny ourselves something every day to help others.