A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what others won't.

There’s one thing about Black Sabbath which should not be understated: If Black Sabbath is missing any one of its members it’s no longer Black Sabbath.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

It's easy to get armchair analysts to talk, but to get people on the inside to talk is very, very hard.

.....joy runs deeper than despair.

Do you wish the world were happy? Then remember day by day, just to scatter seeds of kindness as you pass along the way. . . .

Touch is the mother of the senses. Not only are women more sensitive when they touch, but they're also more sensitive to being touched.

There's only one spot in history for the first ever of anything.

Your perception of the world around you is not necessarily the same as what is actually occurring.

Those who will not dance will have to be shot

Suffering is the stripping of our hope in finite things, therefore we do not put our ultimate hope in anything finite.

If I suddenly disappear from the music world, you might see Hikaru Utada working as a helper at some inn in Atami.

Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.