Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.

Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you're prepared to lose.

If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more.

You are what you are when nobody is looking.

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

The warrior of the night is a wondrous soul.

The best decision you could make in an event of failure, is to still believe in yourself.

«Regrets»... I regret how timid and meek I was back then... always telling myself that I couldn't do anything, never even daring to try. That's definitely something I regret. " (p.330)

We all have within us the ability to move from struggle to grace.

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.

Music has always felt very real to me.

Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody.

I certainly believe that we gain through open trade and liberalisation.

I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.

A picture book is a story told in two languages - word and image. And the illustration is the front door of the book.