I cannot imagine not going home to animals. They are the closest thing to God. They don't harbour resentment.

Romance often begins by a splashing waterfall and ends over a leaky sink.

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.

I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon.

It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting.

Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.

Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost.

Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

He sang 'Stairway to Heaven' in four different languages but never knew where that staircase stood.

If wise are allowed to think

..for Africa was in a way none of them could explain linked up with heaven and they thought of the two places with the same reverence and ultimate longing.

Beauty without expression tires.

The view that we hold in Iraq now is this - that democracy is associated with elections. I believe that elections are possible.

Why is it that when you discover you can't have something, you want it even more?

It is either Christ or chaos.

The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.

The enemy of science is not religion... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did.