I feel close to people like Jimi Hendrix because I connect with his music. Not the man but what he did.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what others won't.

There’s one thing about Black Sabbath which should not be understated: If Black Sabbath is missing any one of its members it’s no longer Black Sabbath.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

Your behavior is the sum total of your action and reaction to issues and people around you.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own.

fiction is necessary to life - not only as books but as dreams, dreams that frame the world and give it meaning.

No-one will be able to make us believe that man is a sublimated animal once we can show that within him there is a repressed angel.

For me, leadership is making a difference. It's using your agency to bring about change.

Today's young women don't really see inequities until they go out into the real world.

On certain occasions, the eyes of the mind can supply the want of the most powerful telescopes, and lead to astronomical discoveries of the highest importance.

Merlin's pants!" shrieked Hermione, jumping up and running from the room. "Merlin's pants?" repeated Ron, looking amused. "She must be really upset.

With a sort of mental squint.

A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.