All I ever intended was to make a living at what I do. Everything I've achieved since then is above and beyond.

Life unravels the way it does, and it has an effect on you, but you have to take responsibility for dealing with it.

I feel like I'm on top of the world. Honestly, I feel like I've climbed a very giant mountain, and I'm just standing right on top with my arms wide open and breathing rarified air.

It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance.

Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.

I don't eat meat, fish, or eggs. I was never a big meat-eater, but I've got more energy now.

When I first saw you, I saw love And the first time you touched me, I felt love And after all this time, You're still the one I love.

I think there's something odd about eating another living anything.

I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.

Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.

The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...

I can always make up my mind better when there's a man around, because I know the thing to do is just the opposite to what he says.

You have to be near Him to hear Him.

I am concerned with facts of quite unverifiable intrinsic value, but which, by their absolutely unexpected violently fortuitous character, and the kind of associations of suspect ideas they provoke.

What does it take to get you to the point where you have to kill your brother? It's biblical, it's huge. It's so personal.

Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people.

If you put your foot in it, be sure it's your best foot.

Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.

It is cowardly to commit suicide. The English often kill themselves. It is a malady caused by the humid climate.

Data is the new science. Big Data holds the answers. Are you asking the right questions?