I wasn't the same person I was eight months ago, and that was okay with me. Sometimes change was good. Sometimes it was even exactly what you needed.

I love California. It definitely represents wild freedom.

As ugly as the truth is, it's even uglier when someone says out loud what you've been thinking to yourself.

When it's a folk festival, there's more of an intention on the song and connecting with people.

[H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.

Sometimes change was good. Sometimes it was even exactly what you needed.

Relationships should be like flat pack come with easy to follow instructions so that you knew which bits fitted where

There are things which money cannot buy

I believe in the immortality of the soul because I cannot conceive of an intelligent First Cause creating human beings through long process of evolution in this world only to destroy them.

The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.

The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.

Your life belongs to you and you alone.

Love the player for who they are, not for what they can do for you. Kids see through the coach whose only concern is for himself.

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

Of all the excellent teachers of college English whom I have known I have never discovered one who knew precisely what he was doing. Therein have lain their power and their charm.

When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution.