History is an accumulation of error.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.

Laughter is inner jogging.

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

You can give me detention. Oh, wait, that's right...you aren't the boss of me. So I guess you can just bite me. -Dean

I don't fight for bragging rights. I've proved myself.

To be truly and really independent is to support ourselves by our own exertions.

When I was a kid, hip-hop had that effect on me, it was escape and it showed me a different way of life.

Grace: The idea was immediately unbearable, only because I wanted it to be true so badly it hurt

My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines.

Janet's a serious racer with some good race-car stuff. She can get the job done. I respect her as a racer.

As you may know my use of Celtic music is extremely simple and short. However there is something about it that will remain in your mind for a long, long time.

I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive.

The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?