"If the label presents them with a contract that the band don't want to sign, all the label has to do is wait. There are a hundred other bands willing to sign the exact same contract, so the label is in a position of strength."

"You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say. "

"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."

"The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance."

"While there's life, there's hope."

"If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift' they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains' they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.'"

"The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief."

"Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it."

"By accepting yourself and being fully what you are, your presence can make others happy."

"See the positive side, the potential, and make an effort."

"The best cure for the body is a quiet mind."

"Live through feeling and you will live through love. For feeling is the language of the soul, and feeling is truth."

"The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world."

"Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience."

"To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well."

"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving."

"Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble."

"All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out."