Listening is the key to everything good in music.

Life is about growing and evolving. I feel like my life has been in stages, and the stages I went through when I was younger allowed me to grow into the man I am today.

The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

I have an attention span that’s as long as it has to be.

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

The more you know the less you understand.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Barack didn’t just talk about hope because he thought it was just a nice slogan to get votes. I mean, he and I and so many believe that if you – what else do you have if you don’t have hope?

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Asking me to come work here is the dumbest idea you ever had. It has been a waste of a year.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

I’ve always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.

I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.

Merry Christmas! the man threatened.

I don’t like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves.