If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them.
Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money
We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You've got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
The rock's easy, but the roll is another thing.
A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
Sooner or later you end up making deals with women. It's an injustice, really.
I'd like to protect children, too, but. . . is everything worth sacrificing to that? I mean, drugs have done a lot of good. . . . They've midwived a lot of good ideas. . . lot of great songs, you know? I think Penny Lane is worth 10 dead kids. . . . I think Dark Side of the Moon is worth 100 dead kids. There, I said it.
The power of habit is very strong.
The imagination of a eunuch dwells more and longer upon the material of love than that of man or woman. . . supplying, so far as he can, by speculation, the place of pleasures he can no longer enjoy.