For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them...