Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

I am prepared to sacrifice every so-called privilege I possess in order to have a few rights.

We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Not to know what things in life require remedying is a crime... It leaves you at the mercy of events - it lets life manipulate you - instead of training you to manipulate life.

Success only hurts the first time.

Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.

Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren’t distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

There are people I know who won't hurt me. I call them corpses.

Never confuse the faith with the supposedly faithful.

Sometimes people do things that hurt and it's not because they mean to. They just do. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with you, but you end up hurt because of it.

Peace is peace.

May the judgment of the dead find you justified.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, how much for a poem?

Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you’d be okay.

A large part of me is pure nebbish - plain, dull, uninteresting. There's a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.

I have assigned many of my father's basses to students, without endangering their lives. Also, they do no harm to the fingers.

There is more sensitivity in technique than in the rest of the picture.

At the weekend, one of the paparazzi left their lunch box filled with half-eaten pasta salad on my doorstep: it was like a little warning, you know? 'We have been here.'

It's not like I'm that wildly famous that it's disrupted my lifestyle in some way.

The greatest influence you can have in any situation is to be the presence of love.