Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.

Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There comes a moment in life when one must acknowledge that you just can't keep looking back into your past for reasons to keep someone in your present and future. Regardless of how much looking that cruel reality in the eye hurts...memories can't be enough.

Eiry Nieves

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Francis Bacon

Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.

Tobias G. Smollett

Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life, than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.

Harry A. Overstreet

Love is a contradiction.

Cassandra Clare

I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.

Mark Strand

I feel very strong as an individual, but as a famous footballer I know I am prone to certain things. All the media have a continuous interest for me. It varies from once a year to every day interest.

Ruud van Nistelrooy

The business is a very tricky obstacle course, and you should be very clear about work begetting work. If you're not working, you're not interesting.

Elisabeth Rohm

The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.

Paul De Man

Oh, softest is the cheek's love-ray When seen by moonlight hours

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Les Brown