I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

I enjoy the times of plenteous and endure the times of scarceness.

When we are young we fear we are not alone in the dark, When we grow up we fear we are

To enter the past is like poking a baseball bat into a spiderweb: it can't be done subtly or delicately.

The fact of knowing how to read is nothing the whole point is knowing what to read.

There is only one of the two that can reside in our hearts, GOD or ego. If GOD is in ego is out.

If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.

But try if you can to support, whether it's AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else might survive, might prosper, and might actually be cured of this dreaded disease.

Being frightened of things is worse than the things themselves.

You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all.

I try to create songs that are really massive and intense, but at the same time remaining honest and raw.