It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humour, and some style.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

[On Calvin Klein asking him ‘Why don’t you call it Geffen Records?’] People in the record business just don’t do that. They come up with names likes Asylum, Capricorn, or Island. [Calvin Klein said if you put your own name on the door ‘You’ll get laid more.’]

I’ll play it first and tell you what it is later.

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

The Zen expression Kill the Buddha!” means to kill any concept of the Buddha as something apart from oneself.

The best way to make money in business is not to think too much about making it.

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society. In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.

Don’t be afraid of fear. Because it sharpens you, it challenges you, it makes you stronger; and when you run away from fear, you also run away from the opportunity to be your best possible self.

Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.

The way I look at it, they’re all part of my musical diary, and I can listen to any one of them and it will bring up memories of what was going on at that time.

What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.

As Puppets are to Men, and Babies to Children, so is Man’s Workmanship to God’s: We are the Picture, he the Reality.

The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds – not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but – a hatred of all injury.