If you want to be a writer, you have to keep writing, all the time, and when you're not writing, be thinking about and planning writing.

Happiness is something we reap from the seeds we sow. Plant misery seeds and that us what you reap.

Art doesn’t give rise to anything in us that isn’t already there. It simply stirs our curious consciousness and sparks a fire that illuminates who we have always wanted to be.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.

If someone starts agreeing with me, I don't like it. Out of pique, I become something else.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

How beautiful a day can be, when kindness touches it!

Another tea-time, another day older.

An asset allocation plan is based on your personal circumstances, goals, time-horizon, and need and willingness to take risk.

Practice? I never practice. I just write songs and take solos.