Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can’t let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn’t even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‚Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.‘

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

My life is real.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

We cannot learn men from books.

I work very hard, and I play very hard. I’m grateful for life. And I live it – I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

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.

It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

I don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

I don’t carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

I know the blessing of having a dad who played 16 years in the league. That experience, and seeing him as an example, let me know that it’s possible. It’s not easy, but it’s possible.

Life is warfare.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

I don’t think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.

Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

My inspiration is R. Kelly, Michael Jackson, and Prince – for the vocals, anyway.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Life is a song to me.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I’m still awake. I can continue yesterday’s dream today, something you can’t normally do in everyday life.

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.

A lot of people don’t realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

I don’t think I get that upset over things.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.