"A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others."

“We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when we look back, when we say, '...we shouldn't have done that.' We must remember, my friends, that we have been given a wonderful cause. The cause of freedom! And you and I must be those who will walk with heads held high. We will say, 'We used methods that can stand the harsh scrutiny of history.'”

“I think love is the through line and it's universal and it doesn't matter what period of time, time or place, or people, that's something we all connect to. That's the thin thread that I think keeps it altogether.”

“Because I come from such a close family, my natural instinct is to marry and have kids as soon as possible.”

“I drink because I’m thirsty,”

“To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole.”

“How much of human life is lost in waiting.”

“The love song must be born into the realm of the irrational, absurd, the distracted, the melancholic, the obsessive, the insane for the love song is the noise of love itself and love is, of course, a form of madness.”

“We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.”