The tiny cost of failure. . . is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.
What course am I to take?" "Towards danger; but not too rashly, nor too straight.
Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomable at the foundations of the Earth.
It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing… this shadow. Even darkness must pass.
I am dreading the publication, for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at.
The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.
In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.
He who is jealous, is never jealous of what you see, with what is imagined is enough.
When I was in top 40 bands, I always had to learn new material and new styles.