It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Intoxicated with madness, I'm in love with my sadness
There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.
What do you want to avoid? Such an easy answer: sloth and unreliability. If you're unreliable it doesn't matter what your virtues are. You're going to crater immediately. Doing what you have faithfully engaged to do should be an automatic part of your conduct. You want to avoid sloth and unreliability.
To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.
The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.
I think that there is a lot of power in a gay guy having a really (hopefully) successful music career while just being completely openly gay and honest and happy.
Ever make mistakes in life? Let's make them birds. Yeah, they're birds now.
It's the imperfections that make something beautiful, that's what makes it different and unique from everything else.
Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms.
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
You add to the suffering in the world when you take offense, just as much as you do when you give offense.
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
I don't do regrets. Regrets are pointless. It's too late for regrets. You've already done it, haven't you? You've lived your life. No point wishing you could change it.
I never regret my past... Only time I wasted was on the wrong people.