America was cool with Saddam Hussein when he was killing Iranians.

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.

Once you experience a major loss and survive, everything else after that you lose seems petty and doesn't affect you much.

Your thoughts, vividly imagined and repeated, charged with emotion, become your reality.

Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.

I was raised to have value for money, to have respect for money, even though you have a lot of it.

Use the new technologies for the old purposes.

People who stay in the same town with the same friends for their entire lives never get a chance to find out who they can really be, because they will always be considered as who they were.

In a country where everyone strives for attention, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.

I've always had a desire to write something and capture people's imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.

People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.