In my own life I like to be poised and have a positive outlook on life, and I'm leading by example to my children and people around me.

The trouble with asking questions is you sometimes get answers you don't wanna hear.

When You've lost it all....thats when you realize that Life is Beautiful.

If you don’t deal with your demons, they will deal with you, and it’s gonna hurt.

Don't waste your death on a half assed life

Rock and Roll's got to be like Jack Daniels. You've got to feel it burn.

Addiction - When you can give up something any time, as long as it's next Tuesday.

I've got so many mountains to climb and goals to conquer. I've got so many scars I want to leave on the planet. I just feel like I'm not there yet. I feel like I am just getting started.

Perfection is unattainable, so I like to live in imperfection.

I had to find the courage to turn my life around.

There is nothing like a trail of blood to find your way back home. When you've lost it all, that's when you finally realize that life is beautiful.

The irony is that there is nothing purer than sorrow.

Events That Haunt The Mind And Scar It With Nightmares Are Never What They Seem...

Everything rusts, rots, crumbles, vanishes. The infinite will just take a little bit longer.

Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

With novels, you're sitting at a desk, alone, going slightly crazy, for anywhere from six months to a year with zero feedback.

The artist has to transcend a subject, or he loses the battle. The subject wins.

I'm always in love. If it's not with a man, it's something else. I love beauty. I love the sky I see outside the window. There's so much beauty in the world.

A Parliament is that to the Commonwealth which the soul is to the body. It behoves us therefore to keep the facility of that soul from distemper.

In Japan, it's strange to openly take credit for giving to charity or even to donate publicly.

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