"The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing."

"Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thine own."

"Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself."

"I was working in a parking lot, which is a great place to learn the guitar. I sat in the booth and practiced all day long. And only two cars were stolen while I worked there."

"True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost."

"If you can read this, thank a teacher."

"A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective."

"The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel."

"It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars."

"PLEASE, v. To lay the foundation for a superstructure of imposition."

"If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact- not to be solved, but to be coped with over time."

"Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends."