It was strange to have no self-to be like a little boy left alone in a big house, who knew that now he could do anything he wanted to do, but found that there was nothing that he wanted to do.

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.

Write for a cause, NOT APPLAUSEWrite to express, NOT TO IMPRESS.Writing isn’t just about being noticed…IT'S BEING REMEMBERED

A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.

A lot of the girls I grew up with were pregnant by the time they were 16. I just was lucky.

What is easy to do is also easy not to do.

The virtue of Christianity is obedience.

My greatest solace is my study. If I am deprived of my study, I can become lost, unhappy and unhinged.

I use a professional researcher in New York who does all the legwork, all that stuff which would take me days and weeks of calling, waiting for people to call back.

In the heart of any pious Jew, God is a Jew. Is your God an Englishman or an American?

There are two things John and I always do when we're going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song.

I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.