I found myself being more and more involved with people who were rejected by society - with drug addicts, alcoholism, battered this, battered that - and I found an affinity there.

Only do what your heart tells you.

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

I don't go by the rule book... I lead from the heart, not the head.

I wear my heart on my sleeve.

I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them.

The worse illness of our time, is that so many people have to suffer from never being loved

Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.

The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.

What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?

Everything I touch makes me a little bit more like the thing I’m touching, so I’d better start paying attention to what I’m touching.

Politeness costs little and yields much.

The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous may happen.

I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.

The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor

Butterflies are always following me, everywhere I go.

Most writers I know move back and forth between the rational and the intuitive, though there are some who approach writing very rationally, and others who claim not to think their work through.

If God is the DJ, then Life is the dance floor; Love is the rhythm and You are the music.

I would love to go for a bob. I want to do the chop and go drastic.

Unlike God the artist does not start with nothing and make something of it. He starts with himself as nothing and makes something of the nothing with the things at hand.