"A wise man once told me: I don't get it but if that's who you are, don't you dare be ashamed of it."

"Le propre des hommes forts n'est pas d'ignorer les hésitations et les doutes qui sont le fonds commun de la nature humaine, mais seulement de les surmonter plus rapidement." -Les rois maudits

"Les infidélités fortuites n'empêchent pas de songer, bien au contraire, à qui l'on est infidèle; c'est même la manière la plus fréquente qu'ont les hommes d'être constants. " -Les rois maudits

"Leurs doigts refirent connaissance, s'interrogèrent et finirent par s'unir, entrecroisés dans ce geste où l'amour se promet plus sûrement que par un baiser, comme si les mains de deux êtres se liaient pour une même prière." -Les rois maudits

"Chacun ne se bat bien qu'avec les armes qui lui sont propres." -Les rois maudits

"La malédiction ne vient pas de Dieu. Elle vient de nous-même et ne prend origine que dans nos propres actes." -Les rois maudits

"Tout acte injuste, même commis pour une juste cause, porte en soi sa malédiction." -Les rois maudits

"Chaque pas doit être un but."

"Honesty is tough but in the end it is the far kinder alternative."

"Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action."

"There have been monsters under my bed for so long. And now when they 're not there anymore, I feel like I have to create them."

"Everyone say secrets keep us close. It's wrong. They tear us apart."

"Rien n'est plus triste que la mort d'une illusion."

"You wanna change but you don't know how. Take my power and both your hands and get your life back. I can feel your pain, I know it cripples you but pain can be a motivator. Pain is a call to action. Pain is essential, just like anger is. Take pain in one hand, and anger in the other. Use them. "

"L'amour ne naît que dans le partage. On ne peut en avoir plus pour soi qu'en le donnant aux autres."

"Trouve en toi l'endroit où est la joie, et la joie vaincra la douleur."

"C'est lorsqu'il parle en son nom que l'homme est le moins lui-même. Donnez-lui un masque et il vous dira la vérité."

A girl's legs are her best friends... but even the best of friends must part.

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better.

Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.

Choice is free, and it is opposed to force and constraint, and a man is said to choose those things which he likes, which he loves, which his soul inclines to, when he is carried to them, not by the compulsion of an external principle, but by his own propension and inclination.

I wanted to modernize music, but more than that, to completely modernize people's attitudes towards life in general.

When fans come up to me and Vanessa, they're really sweet and ask for autographs - but once they see the guys, the girls tend to scream.

Women belong in all places where decisions are being made... It shouldn't be that women are the exception.

Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance the classical side, and classical can only enhance the jazz. I started out playing classical, because you have to have that as a foundation.

I don't believe in trying to be somebody you're not - just be a bigger, better version of yourself.

My music is tonally based. There is plenty of dissonance, but it's used as a contrast. There is polytonality at times and a lot of rhythmic interplay.

My guess is more reporters probably vote Democrat than Republican - just because I think reporters are smart.

If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally.

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

I would like to be remembered as the reporter who snuck back stage to all the off-limits shows, be it the Vatican dressing room, the Pentagon war room, or the Celtics locker room. Some curtains ought never to be pulled back; others deserve to be ripped down. When appropriate, I want to be the curtain remover.

When you find a way to be really receptive to your child's needs and really listen, you can be more open to what they say they want or what they say they need.

I actually have more shoes than anyone will ever know.

It’s not bragging if you can back it up.

If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.

When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.

Great artists are like loaded guns. They are dangerous in anybody's hands.

Rainbows and mermaids are proof that imagination and beauty go hand in hand.

We procured from an Indian a weasel perfectly white except the extremity of the tail which was black: great numbers of wild geese are passing to the south, but their flight is too high for us to procure any of them.

I think the whole nerves thing comes into play when we worry about what other people and society will think.

I like a restaurant called Bruci, and there's some really nice people who work there and good food. They change their menu a lot, so maybe that's what keeps me coming back. I never know what I'm going to get.