My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.

War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser rather peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.

I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners peace has to be learned.

I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.

I learned patience perseverance and dedication. Now I really know myself and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

Such is the audacity of man that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature yea and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.

I'm so not stylish by nature but I've learned to work with what I have.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature.

The learned is happy nature to explore The fool is happy that he knows no more.