For so long music has been my heart, but now it's you...you're my heart.

Everyone wanted me to be the bad boy, the label wanted it, the publicists wanted it, but I was just trying to be myself.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but your words...they'll destroy my soul.

Tell me why it feels like you're a part of my soul?

Most things in my life are anything but simple--but loving you is. I just do.

I know who you are...I've fallen hard for that person, and I sure as hell am not going to let you fade into your past.

I've loved many women...I'm not going to lie to you, but it never works...vanity always gets in the way.

I'd lost myself in the abyss of someone else's tyranny...again.

إن المؤمن ليدرك بحسن الخلق درجة الصائم والقائم

Diplomacy was a long game.

There's a pleasure being mad that only the madman knows.

the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is.

Your attitude will go a long way in determining your success, your recognition, your reputation and your enjoyment in being a lawyer.

Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.

In Illinois, where legislators are paid $45, 000, plus as much as $10, 000 for leadership work, about half are full-time politicians.

I strongly believe that each preventable death is one death too many.

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.