All you need is passion. If you have a passion for something, you'll create the talent.

Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don’t give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life’s problems will fall away and you will get what you want. It happens. It works.

The greatest things in life - truth, creativity, imagination, love, kindness, compassion -are already inside us, and they're all free.

Sometimes we get caught up in our troubles and our problems and we let life slip away, but life is precious, all of life, and one must try to take in as much of it as possible.

Of all the forces that are exerted on us over our lifetime, at least for me, love has been the most powerful of all.

There’s a very deep connection among human beings. All we have to do is open our minds to it.

I tend to avoid writing music about initial reactions to situations, like frustration or anger. I’d rather wait till I go through the problem, and write about the learning that took place.

A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.

No matter what happens in life, never lose sight of who you are.

My father taught me that one of the most important abilities in life is to be able to take the pain and persevere, and for years this lesson had served me well.

The most important battle is one to conquer yourself.

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.

The bright bite in Mary Lee Kortes' voice [has] the high-mountain sunshine of Dolly Parton, with a sweet-iron undercoat of Chrissie Hynde.

Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.

In my life, I find that in sobriety, I feel much more. And I have much more depth.

I love women and I love the women I have been with. I always try to be kind and cautious and treat people nice.

I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in from four to four hundred years.

I'm a Taurus. To the bone.

Europeans are quarrelsome.

I love working out and when I'm home. I love the feeling of walking out of a class. That's just an addictive feeling for me.