Just because you're breathing, doesn't mean you're alive.

Becoming a man means doing the right thing even though it may be hard or difficult. Boys do what is easiest. A man does what is right, whether easy or not.

Only you can know the difference between your wants and your needs, and your sacrifice of your life's time to both.

Reading teaches us the nuances of humanity. To find the beauty of what is moral and ethical in your own actions and discover the strange subtlety of what it is to question why you should exist.

A good man lives for the joy in life and the happiness of being alive, not shackled to the wants of the future or the regrets of the past.

You know there's got to be a better way of life - somewhere, sometime, somehow - but you're not exactly sure what better is.

Sometimes we make being happy so difficult. And being thankful such a chore.

Time. Either you are for it or against it. So be here now. Not later.

Sometimes I feel as if I'm only a doorman awaiting the arrival of her royal majesty.

I gather the last remnants of the evening’s breeze, so cool and lazy within my arms, feeling it curl up like a small and innocent kitten.

Spring is a time to make up a big bouquet of flowers for someone you love, or are trying to love, or are in love with.

You can be a genius, but you won't get far in life without balance.

God is basically an emotion, nothing less nothing more.

Why are you so determined to keep your wild silently inside you? Let it breathe. Give it a voice. Let it roll out of you on the wide open waves. Set it free

Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.

You win some and you lose some. Unless you're Virgil, then you lose them all.

As a small child me and my pals fantasised about one day owning an ice-cream van. To have ice creams on demand would have been a dream come true.

Piracy is almost always a service problem.

Every time you go in and make a record it is like a calling card, not so people can come and hear you live or are interested in your catalog.

I have known only one way of carrying on missionary work, viz., by personal example and discussion with searchers for knowledge.

The internet is a great thing but the worst thing that it brought to the music business was piracy and it's made making stuff available really difficult.