Love your mother, she bore you. Love your father, he works for you.

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

Music is one of the closest link-ups with God that we can probably experience. I think it's a common vibrating tone of the musical notes that holds all life together.

Politics and hypocrites is turning us all into lunatics.

Crime is increasing, trigger happy policing. Panic is spreading, God knows where we're heading.

To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and show that there is more to this world than what meets the eye.

War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate

Don't play with something you should cherish for life.

Don't you know how sweet and wonderful life can be?

Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.

Art is a way of possessing destiny.

People wrote me off but they did not realize that I was a writer - I rewrote my own destiny.

If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.

Sometimes I’ve even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always.

The happiest and most glorious hours of my life with books have been with German books.

The way to feel better about your own situation is to improve someone else’s circumstances.

The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.

Accepting help is its own kind of strength.

Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.

The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.

Most artists should be able to make the album that they want. You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when you're making a record, but for the most part it's the same process.