A metallurgist is someone who can look at a platinum blonde and tell whether she's virgin material or a common ore.

Where I lived, it was a cold mining place, a village called Dunston. The only time you saw a Rolls-Royce was when somebody died.

Live. Love. Smile. Hug. Laugh. Dream. Do. Create. Have fun. Be intense. Be audacious. Be unreasonable. Act impeccably. Breathe. Be you. Be different.

Self actualization is the oxygen for the soul.

Happiness isn’t some elusive treasure we chase after. It’s a state of being we need to PRACTICE.

If people have a passion for anything they tend to get quite good at it.

Live at your highest potential-moment to moment to moment... When do we feel most alive? When we're being ourselves-our highest selves.

The only people I have ever seen paint successfully, consistently, with great authority, unselfconsciously and without fear of failing were about four years old.

I'm an out and out basic man and AC/DC are one of the best rock'n'roll bands in the world, doing things just to the basics, you know.

We see this as a test of their ability to face reality.

People are famous for being famous and for nothing else. And good luck to them, because it lasts about a year and then they're nothing again.

Chaos is complexity viewed through a reductionist filter.

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states, and sometimes even psychosis.

Every day your memory grows dimmer - it doesn't haunt me like it did before.

When I get to the Good Place I will continue to fight the Devil even harder.

There are three types of golf: golf, tournament golf and Major championship golf.

Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts.

When you mail Ichiro something from the States, you only have to use that name on the address and he gets it (in Japan). He's that big.

Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.

How pale is the art of sorcerers, witches, and conjurors when compared with that of the government's Treasury Department!