I got my heart broken. My spirit got shattered and mutilated. I will not be coming back from this. I don’t want to.

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.

Let the sunrise of every morning bring you the light of love and joy.

...but that was the thing about reality. It didn't need to make sense.

Why would the stars want to look down on such as me?

If there is no friendship with them [the poor] and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is no authentic commitment to liberation, because love exists only among equals.

We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.

This film [the Cell] certainly is not meant for the girls who sing along with my songs.

If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.

And sure, there's a universe where I made a bonehead call that blew the Super Bowl. But that's not my universe.

The member of Congress who is not making a career of politics looks quite differently at the world.

Though leadership may be hard to define, the one characteristic common to all leaders is the ability to make things happen.