Nothing is real.
When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
We’re more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don’t know which will go first; rock and roll or Christianity.
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first — rock and roll or Christianity.
For a long time I wasn’t listening to music, to the rock and roll stuff on the radio, because it would cause me to get sweaty–it would bring back memories I didn’t want to know about, or I would get that feeling that I’m not alive ’cause I’m not making it. And if it was good, I hated it ’cause I wasn’t doing it. And if it was bad, I was furious ’cause I could’ve done it better…
The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.
I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.
The only reward of virtue is virtue the only way to have a friend is to be one.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
But real action is in silent moments. The epochs of our life are not in the visible facts of our choice of a calling, our marriage, our acquisition of an office, and the like, but in a silent thought by the wayside as we walk; in a thought which revises our entire manner of life, and says.
We don’t want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.
Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.
Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
Always two there are, no more, no less. A master and an apprentice.
Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a gray one.
Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.
The heart is forever inexperienced.
The place of justice is a hallowed place.
A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
