Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.

It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl’d shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn’t like you. Especially when you don’t know what you’ve done to deserve it.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

Bitterness is cancer – it eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

And if you’re horrible to me I’m going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That’s how I operate.

Make no mistake about why these babies are here – they are here to replace us.

Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

I don’t know how much longer I’ll be around. I’ll probably be writing when the Lord says, ‚Maya, Maya Angelou, it’s time.‘

I kind of love Cole Miller.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

I’m tired. I’m tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I’m tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.

If I ever felt like I was getting lost in the hurricane that was storming around Nirvana, I’d just go back to Virginia.

No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn’t find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do.

To insult someone we call him ‚bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, ‚human‘ might be the greater insult.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Ain’t nothing like a good cry.

Doo-wop is special music to me because it’s so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.