If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music.
Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.
Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private.
If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again.
That's my advice to all homosexuals, whether they're in the Boy Scouts, or in the Army or in high school: Shut up, don't tell anybody what you do, your life will be a lot easier.
As the tree is bent, so it will grow.
Quit worrying about your health. It will go away.
Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.
My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.
That is why one day I said my game will be like the Pythagorean Theorem - hard to figure out. A lot of people really don't know the Pythagorean Theory. They don't make them like me anymore. They don't want to make them like that anymore.
My greatest day is yet to come. Of all the things that I've accomplished, my greatest day is yet to come. But it will never come if I don't pursue it.
Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again.
The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town.
We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.