I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.
Every man has within himself the entire human condition
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
Only the fools are certain and assured.
Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.
When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.
I suppose you do think about the time that's allotted to you more than when you were younger. The mortality thing obviously has a stronger pull for you. It's an imminent truth; it's not necessarily a bad thing. You realize - much earlier than my age now - that you won't be able to play for England's football team, just to take a really crass example. So you can't have that life again. Unless you believe in reincarnation or whatever. Reincarnation? That's a whole other question. I find people who talk about that sort of thing in interviews idiotic. And I don't want to go down with them.
Nature has been mastering itself for some time now, and it is an honor to be able to capture its beauty.