I think life on the road really suits very egotistical men. It's set up for kings.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead

I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

The trouble with me, he thought unhappily, is that I have been about the world long enough to know that God's plans for us, however infallibly good, may not take the form we expect and demand.

We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest the butterflies the song of the birds if we can't see the stars at night.

Does the e-mail say it's about 'enlargement' - that might be spam.

I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.

He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker.

Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love

Those of us who have come to years of discretion and more, must often take to retrospect, and seek to appraise the outcome of our lives.

Roald Amundsen says that 'Adventure is just bad planning.' In that case, friends, let us make more bad planning!

How far would people get in physics if discovery was described as disgusting - "Your formula is disgusting and filthy"? Not very far.