One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

I made lots of mistakes – the number one mistake being trusting other people with my money.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

I’m happy to be a writer – of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn’t a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

You can stroke people with words.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

I’m sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

I think we’re still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

It’s funny because I’ve made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.

I’m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I’m out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

How does a nice Catholic girl end up going to prison for a year? It’s crazy. I’ve made mistakes. I have to pay for those mistakes.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

Behold, at this hour our moral history is being preserved for eternity. Processes are at work which will perpetuate our every act and word and thought.

That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts – the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

‚Kiss Land‘ wasn’t about what people wanted to hear on the radio. It was the state of mind I was in – introverted, like David Cronenberg’s ‚Naked Lunch.‘ You didn’t know if you were hearing a chorus or a verse. It was just my thoughts.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – ‚tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren’t really about anything – which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things.

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

Don’t think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations – wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!