I used to have the Range Rover LR3, which I loved very, very much.

Where I lived, it was a cold mining place, a village called Dunston. The only time you saw a Rolls-Royce was when somebody died.

Live. Love. Smile. Hug. Laugh. Dream. Do. Create. Have fun. Be intense. Be audacious. Be unreasonable. Act impeccably. Breathe. Be you. Be different.

Self actualization is the oxygen for the soul.

Happiness isn’t some elusive treasure we chase after. It’s a state of being we need to PRACTICE.

If people have a passion for anything they tend to get quite good at it.

Live at your highest potential-moment to moment to moment... When do we feel most alive? When we're being ourselves-our highest selves.

The only people I have ever seen paint successfully, consistently, with great authority, unselfconsciously and without fear of failing were about four years old.

A metallurgist is someone who can look at a platinum blonde and tell whether she's virgin material or a common ore.

I'm an out and out basic man and AC/DC are one of the best rock'n'roll bands in the world, doing things just to the basics, you know.

We see this as a test of their ability to face reality.

Every day is a dance deed.

Most of us do not understand nuclear fission, but we accept it . . . Why is it so easy to accept manmade miracles and so difficult to accept the miracles of the Bible?

Love is not blind. Infatuation is blind. Love is all-seeing and still accepting.

Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.

A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.

I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore.

What we employ in charitable uses during our lives is given away from ourselves; what we bequeath at our death is given from others only, as our nearest relations.

Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.

Otherness is a big thing for me. I'm always drawn to characters that live lives that I couldn't lead.

I am suspicious of what people might want from me. Do they like me, or my money?