I would like to know how it feels for my desperation to get louder.

Sometimes in our lives we all have pain. We all have sorrow. But if we are wise we know that there's always tomorrow.

No one can fill those of your needs that you won't let show.

When you get to all right, take a good look around and get used to it, because that may be as far as you're gonna go.

Sellout... I'm not crazy about the word. We're all entrepreneurs. To me, I don't care if you own a furniture store or whatever - the best sign you can put up is SOLD OUT.

Value the people who value YOU.

If you start sweet, then you've got somewhere to go.

I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel.

The same love that made me laugh makes my cry.

Lean on me, when you're not strong and I'll be your friend, I'll help you carry on.

I was wiser at 30 than I am now. My judgment was better at 12. If you look out the windshield of a Hyundai or a Bentley, you see the same road.

In all spheres of life, we find the grace of patient endurance.

Good things quickly become habitual and we often stop valuing them.

Time is not a line but a series of now-points.

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

I adore [my son]. I wouldn't trade him in for a Pulitzer - unless someone actually offered that as an option.

Perspective is what allows us to step back and see the entire forest instead of just the same old tree we keep running into again and again.

People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4,000 meters.

Silence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with.

Who would find out that I am a natural fool if I kept always cool and never let nature come to the surface? Nobody.

Being completely in control is a fantasy.