I have accepted that the world is a perpetually moving beacon, with a never-ending supply of new possibilities. And there is always room for second chances when you have eternity.

You must continue to believe with all your heart. Sometimes belief is all if takes to make something real.

Your number one mission in life is to be who you were intended to be.

With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot.

I love New York, but I have to admit that I feel very English, and I do miss that sense of history that you have everywhere in Britain.

Defense is superior to opulence.

You can’t dress rehearse the bad moments.

As for money - when I have it, it's great. When I don't, I go get some. I've been a dishwasher, a gardener, a cleaner.

As a major country music fan, the CMA awards are my favorite!

We are born, we live and we die - in the midst of the marvelous.

Fight valiantly to-day; and yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, for thou art framed of the firm truth of valor.