I have a tendency to trust translators, mainly because nobody does it for the money.

There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken.

What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.

The saddest thing that can happen to a person is to find out their memories are lies.

The most wonderful thing in life is to do something for a child because they're children for such a short time. We can't allow ourselves to let them live a miserable childhood.

I don't believe in anything, only in myself, but I respect all people who believe in something.

When I was 15, all I knew was that I had to be somebody and that I could be somebody. So I exploited the only thing I knew, which was singing and songwriting.

Art itself is female - it is full of graciousness, cadence, color, rhythm. It's full of love and grace.

Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather sympathy we learn to feel for the pain of others.

Adulthood brings with it a pernicious illusion of control.

...the nostalgia for things that weren't yet lost.

Lord, thank you for the courage to live life.

It's a mother's greatest privilege to give birth, to raise a child. But a woman's greatest honor is to look at her son with pride and know that she's helped him become a man.

Once upon a time--which, when you come to think of it, is reallythe only proper way to begin a story--the only way that reallysmacks of romance and fairyland--

Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society.

Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership.

Life needs a membrane to contain itself so it can replicate and mutate.

I guess the solo from 'Achilles Last Stand' is in the same tradition as the solo from 'Stairway to Heaven'...it is on that level to me.

Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed so is the body.

The public want to see people play an exciting brand of cricket.

I think a sentence is a fine thing to put a preposition at the end of.