I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead

I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

Knowledge is power, and the right knowledge lets man perform miraculous, almost godlike tasks.

Remorse shows the difference between a cruel person and one that is not.

For the truly faithful no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt no miracle is sufficient.

Cerner is a company that just celebrated its 20th anniversary in 1999.

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

No matter what you have done to this moment, you get 24 brand-new hours to spend every single day.

If you are psychic you will become much more aware of the beauty of life. If you are psychic, when you look at a rose, you will see and feel the essence of the rose.

Too much, too little, too late, to ever try again. Too much, too little, too late, let's end it being friends.

I believe that you live on inside the hearts and minds of everyone you've touched while you were here on earth.

Great leadership is not attained by pursuing greatness but by persevering through great tests.