Archives - June 2011

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
 

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
 

I took a speed reading course and read WAR AND PEACE in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
 

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
 

Studios are passé for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement.
 

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
 

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
 

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.
 

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
 

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk to blossom.
 

We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.
 

The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on.
 

According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.
 

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
 

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
 

Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.
 

It's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?
 

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
 

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.
 

Oh, the summer night
Has a smile of light
And she sits on a sapphire throne.
 

Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants.
 

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.
 

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
 

Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of --- for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
 

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.
 

Music is the universal language of mankind.
 

The little things, I can obey. But the big things --- how we think, what we value --- those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone --- or any society --- determine those for you.
 

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.
 

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.