The artist accepts the limitations of form, not with fear and dread, but as the starting point of creation.
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
It is better to do something than to do nothing while waiting to do everything.
When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.
If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.
I pray for my nation, South Africa. As Jesus stood in the boat and commanded the storms to be calm, I stand in the midst of the storm in my nation, South Africa and I command the storm, wind and waves to be calm, in the name of Jesus! I speak calmness to my nation, South Africa, in the name of Jesus!
How fleeting the sorrows of youth, how slight the foundations on which the young build towers of despair
In high school and college, I was an athlete.
I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with Billy Joel