"In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him."

"He who has much to proclaim one day, stays silently much immersed within himself: he who has to kindle the lightning one day, must for a long time--be a cloud."

"Thinking evil is making evil."

"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."

"What we once did 'for the sake of God' we now do for the sake of money."

"I mistrust all systemizers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity."

"Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself."

"You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty."

"If you leave the pool you have dug for yourself and go out into the river of life then life has an astonishing way of taking care of you, because then there is no taking care on your part."

"[What is the definition of guts?] Grace under pressure."

"I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say."

"Fame and glory are fleeting, especially in the music business. That's why completing my degree and graduating from college were priorities."