I love love. I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love it. I love the way it blurs the distinction between everyone who isn't one's lover.

I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.

To achieve all of your goals, focus on one goal at a time.

The limitation prompting folly " was an attitude of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable.

The closer you got to someone, the more it would destroy you when they were inevitably gone.

There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn't come from anything else. It is a sound of peace. It is a sound of, 'I'm going to make it through all of this.'

I was born in '74, so I missed out on all the great early '60s and early '70s.

Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.

Effective leaders don't gather things just for themselves; they do it in order to give to others.

We must wave our banners even higher and belt out our voices even stronger and be unified as people. We're going to make it through this!

And anyway, it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head.

Some people consider me worse than Hitler, luckily for others I am Jesus.