Nothing is easier or more pathetic than being a critic. Because they're people that can't get the job done. But the future belongs to the dreamers, not to the critics. The future belongs to the people who follow their heart no matter what the critics say.

Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won't last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don't realize that.

The greatest tie of all is language.... Words are the only things that last for ever. The most tremendous monuments or prodigies of engineering crumble under the hand of Time. The Pyramids moulder, the bridges rust, the canals fill up, grass covers the railway track; but words spoken two or three thousand years ago remain with us now, not as mere relics of the past, but with all their pristine vital force.

It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego.