"Think what you do when you run into debt; you give another power over your liberty."

"If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect."

"God heals, and the doctor takes the fees."

"But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."

"He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom."

"Dost thou love life? Than do not squander time, for it is the stuff life is made of."

"Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia."

"The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery."

"In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time."

"There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?"

"We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art."

"It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to bring the news to you."