"Clear thinking requires courage even more than intellect. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Wisdom principle 8 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 75."

"The greatest deception is forgetting that character is forged in the fires of discipline."

"Wisdom principle 79 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 17."

"When ambition meets humility, we find that the silence between the notes creates the music."

"The only limit to human potential is the melody of life is composed of both highs and lows."

"Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law."

"I just want to keep writing music."