It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.

I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.

It is impossible to enjoy idling unless there is plenty of work to do.

Leave me, before I get over the wall & slay you.

I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I become foolish.

It seems to me so shocking to see the precious hours of a man's life - the priceless moments that will never come back to him again - being wasted in a mere brutish sleep.

When the dew is rolled away from our eyes, we perceive the worthiness of all beings to be loved, and we take delight in being a channel for the manifestation of love in the world.

Suffering shapes the life force, sometimes into anger, sometimes into blame and self-pity. Eventually it may show us the wisdom of embracing and loving life.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

I’m thinking of opening a firing range where all the targets are shaped like computers with screens full of pop-up ads.

I was always trying to write standards, songs that anybody can sing. I figured that's where the money was.

All girls like guys who are tough. Obviously, riding a motorcycle - I don't want to say that there's a bad boy quality - but there's definitely a tough and macho thing about a guy who rides a motorcycles and that element of danger. That's really sexy.