If you want to change the world, first change your heart.

I am not bothered by the fact that I am not understood. I am bothered when I do not know others.

Every man knows the smell of his own fart.

If there were an honorable way to get rich, I’d do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn’t an honorable way, so I just do what I like.

It's only in winter that the pine and cypress are known to be evergreens.

There has never been a man mean and at the same time virtuous.

Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.