I think life goes through a cycle of losing and refinding yourself all the time. Everyone has disappointments all the time, some of them pretty small, some of them pretty big.

It's not the time in your life, it's the life in your time.

We struggled together, and sometimes, we struggled with one another... We took care of one another... In the end, we kept faith in each other.

Talk about a dream, try to make it real.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

cause down the shore everything's all right

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Someday girl, I don't know when, were gonna get to the place where we really want to go, and we'll walk in the sun. But til then, tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.

Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.

Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.

Biologically speaking, you are the child of Mother Nature, and neurologically speaking, you are the heirs of immortal bliss.

May I never forsake thee, my God.

Now I am past all comforts here but prayer.

I don't remember one thing I learned in school.

That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.

If people see your weaknesses they will take advantage of them.

I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done.

The future is in the hands of those who can give tomorrow's generations valid reasons to live and hope.

Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.

My hair has become part of my identity; it's almost an appendage to me.