"The records I always maintained were there to serve just one purpose - that was to be broken"

“We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.”

“Dance as though no one is watching. Love as though you've never been hurt. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.”

“It is such a cut throat industry where you get knocked down so much and get rejected so much. If you do not back yourself up, no one else is going to so you really need to learn to get up, shake the sand off your chest and keep going.”

“You can sing the blues in church if you use the words right.”

“I realized that I was really tired of people popping on and off of my property like it was a train station on the supernatural railroad.”

“Pasteur himself was absolutely fearless. Anxious to secure a sample of saliva straight from the jaws of a rabid dog, I once saw him with the glass tube held between his lips draw a few drops of the deadly saliva from the mouth of a rabid bull-dog, held on the table by two assistants, their hands protected by leather gloves.”

Source : Axel Munthe (1930). “The Story of San Michele”

“I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps... It just feels right.”

“When I started to record, I could sing in pitch, but that was maybe about it.”