All music is escapism for me, but I like the way that, on a good night, that sense of escapism can be shared.

The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.

You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

I do get scared, but I think - like it says in another book I've read - feel the fear and do it anyway. I try to have courage, pray a little bit and work through it. I'd rather try, even if I fail.

I was a late starter on the romantic front. I didn't start dating until I was in my 30s.

I love being on the beach - it's my favourite place. I can chill out, read, listen to music, play with my daughter.

I feel like good music comes and goes in waves.

I've got a really good family; I've got great friends around me.

I grew up with just my mum and sister, so I respect women a lot.

That's the amazing thing about music: there's a song for every emotion. Can you imagine a world with no music? It would suck.

You get a lot of who you are as a musician across through the music you write. If you're writing your own music, then it's important to be really honest.

I'm quite old-fashioned. I like going out to dinner. You have the chance to talk to somebody and get to know them better.

Who's a boy gonna talk to if not his mother?

Sorry; I have no space left for advice. Just do it.

Sadness is also a kind of defence.

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.

To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

I'm not a sad person, upset the whole time, but I seem to be quite emotional.

When you're happy you don't always have to be laughing, and when you're sad you don't have to be crying; sometimes it's the opposite. You laugh when you're the most upset.

This is how you start to get respect: by offering something that you have.

Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.

Everything that gets born dies.

The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.

After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.

Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again.

I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.