I am a complete mother's boy. I try to do everything with honour, respect and grace because the last thing I would want to do is hurt her.

Nothing changes, until you change. Everything changes, once you change

I love to sit on a mountain top and gaze. I don't think of anything but the people I care about and the view.

Dad was a hypocrite. He could talk about peace and love to the world but he could never show it to his wife and son.

I had always thought of starting my own record company. I haven't regretted the decision - yet!

Anyone must remember that dad left when I was 3 years old. Mom and I lived out of the limelight. We lived a totally different life.

I've found constancy and balance between creativity and normality.

As much as I love music, in my mind, photography is what makes me the happiest - that's for sure.

I've been a philanthropist for all my life, and... I've had many involvements in humanitarian and environmental issues.

I find it upsetting to see the erosion of manners. It's very scary. Where are the 'pleases' and 'thank yous?'

I think everyone has the potential to be creative but they have to find the avenue or avenues that work for them.

To light a candle is to cast a shadow...

There can never be someone greater at being you than you.

Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present.

A trickle of blood slid down his arm.He felt nothing. He only saw it.Because nothing hurt like missing her.He suspected nothing ever would

Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.

Victimhood and a “can't do” spirit is what the Democratic Party has mostly been about since the Great Depression.

A man's potential for God lies not in his ability, nor in his opportunity, but in his humility before God.

Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.

I just don't see me going through that rehab and coming back to pitch at this point in my life.

So much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books and sci-fi/fantasy books as existing on a continuum.