"I never think over my mistakes. I just live up to them."

“Look with your heart and not with your eyes. The heart understands. The heart never lies. Believe what it feels, and trust what it shows. Look with your heart; the heart always knows. Love is not always beautiful, not at the start. But open your arms, and close your eyes tight. Look with your heart and when it finds love, your heart will be right.”

“The ability to defend yourself is a basic necessity like food and water. We exempt food and water from the sales tax.”

“Modern man receives a large part of his knowledge and general education by way of pictorial impressions, illustrations, photographs, films. Daily newspapers bring more pictures from year to year. In addition, the advertising business operates with optical signals as well as representations. Exhibitions and museums are indeed offspring of this visual hustle.”

“My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.”

“Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream.”

“Jesus is not the 'founder of Christianity.”

“Duties are ours; events are God's. This removes an infinite burden from the shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature. On this consideration only, can he securely lay down his head, and close his eyes.”

Source : Richard Cecil (1825). “The works of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... with a memoir of his life: Arranged and rev., with a view of the author's character”, p.262

“I have been the artist with the longest career, and I am so proud and honored to be chosen from heaven to be invincible.”