I'm always soul searching on a spiritual level.

Life unravels the way it does, and it has an effect on you, but you have to take responsibility for dealing with it.

I feel like I'm on top of the world. Honestly, I feel like I've climbed a very giant mountain, and I'm just standing right on top with my arms wide open and breathing rarified air.

It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance.

Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.

I don't eat meat, fish, or eggs. I was never a big meat-eater, but I've got more energy now.

When I first saw you, I saw love And the first time you touched me, I felt love And after all this time, You're still the one I love.

I think there's something odd about eating another living anything.

I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.

Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.

I did have a friend, ' I said.'And your friend trespassed upon you, ' the Wally replied.

Man is a vile creature!

I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I write and I sell paintings, and my rule is, well, they can't arrest me.

The growth that an artist seeks is a fine combination of mastering craft, garnering an audience, maintaining one's mental health, and working mightily from a ever-expanding base of experience.

Leonid Breznev was an old man and despite his own military experience in World War II, he on the other hand was not very close to the military.

In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.

The child is the beauty of God present in the world, that greatest gift to a family

We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.

The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.

Clouds pass and disperse. Are those the faces of love, those pale irretrievables? Is it for such I agitate my heart?