Death is there to keep us honest and constantly remind us we are free.

I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing

You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!

Love is the promise that guides me.

Down the ancient corridors through the gates of time, run the ghosts of dreams that we have left behind.

Wealthy the spirit that knows its own flight. Stealthy the hunter who slays his own fright. Blessed the traveler who journeys the length of the light

Love when you can, cry when you have to, be who you must, that's a part of the plan. Await your arrival with simple survival, and one day we'll all understand.

My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to

There's a heaven on earth that so few ever find, though the map's in your soul and the road's in your mind

A simple smile, a tender touch, speaks the true language of love.

Between the worlds of men and make believe I can be found.

If you act for self-gain then no good can come of it. If you act selflessly, then you act well for all and you must not be afraid.

Watch people when they win, and you will learn something. But watch them when they lose, and you will learn even more.

If you hate what you get for Christmas, try to focus on the person who gave the gift to you, not what came in the box.

Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.

I support all efforts to protect the security of the state of Israel.

We can be creative and generate new breakthroughs, if we're willing to work with ideas from the pool of history - both distant and more recent - despite the potential for our experiments to fail.

A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.

People who don't know you, you don't know their motives. They smile at you all day, "Oh, that's great. You've done it again! You're the greatest!" And that's not good for an artist.

I really believe that happiness comes from things that cannot taken away from you.

I think filmmakers all secretly wanna be musicians and all musicians secretly wanna be filmmakers.