Beauty will save the world.

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!

The soul is healed by being with children.

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

But how could you live and have no story to tell?

If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

For something to be great, there has to be some kind of trial or some type of struggle that actually makes it special or valuable to you. Otherwise, anything could be easily taken for granted.

Maybe you don't just have one Goliath. Maybe you have his whole family!

Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.

Never in history has distance meant less.

The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.

I have a dark sense of humor, so I definitely like to work on stuff like that. I do enjoy working in comedies where I can create a fun and broad character.

Cybernetics is NOT the banana.

When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'

New York City is a notoriously hard market to perform country music in.