“A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.”

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.

All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody – benefiting humanity – and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.

Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.

Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.

What people need and what they want may be very different.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.

Man’s greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors.

The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so.

Some of my best experiences are with writer/directors. Guy Ritchie is one. I feel they have a clearer view of what they want to do. They haven’t got to try and interpret someone’s writing; it’s all theirs. I really admire that.

From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That’s the rule of life.

As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.

The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.

My experiences remind me that it’s those black clouds that make the blue skies even more beautiful.

I try to be respectful about getting an honor or recognition, but I don’t really know what the Rock Hall actually is. In my experience with the people who run it, I don’t see it having to do with anything other than them making money.

In my experience, it’s all wonderful with girls until about 16. Around that time, boys kind of calm down and start focusing their testosterone. Girls get a little challenging, especially for fathers.