As a young person growing up in Washington, D.C., summers were hot, humid and relentless. My friends and I grew more restless and adventurous with every passing year.

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.

When we overcome the fear of death, we become deathless, endless, and infinite.

People who care nothing for their country's stories and songs, ' he said, 'are like people without a past- without a memory- they are half people

One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.

I was an international studies major.

Don't wait until you know who you are to get started.

My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.

The Federal Reserve bank buys government bonds without one penny.

I guess it's easier to get things made when you know the story you want to tell, you know the characters you want to play, and you know the filmmakers you want to tell them with.

I think it's unconstitutional on the 10th Amendment front.

The age is materialistic. Verse isn't. I must be with the age, so I am writing prose.