One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up.
I don't need to hear Bill to go through a song. I need to hear Keith to go through a song. I know Bill will be playing what I'm playing anyway. I need to hear Keith because it's all there: the time, the chord changes, and all the licks you have to follow.
If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
I don't think I will be less good because there's less pressure on me.
Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority.
My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.