Music is the greatest communication in the world.

Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.

I might have lived long enough to learn all this in the long haul, but I would have been just another soul taking up time and space for a long spell before I learned.

The preacher asked her and she said I do. The preacher asked me, and she said yes he does, too.

I began to learn acceptance, direction, understanding and perception - all elements that had been sadly lacking in my life.

There's no ifs and buts or maybes, you're gonna miss, you're gonna miss my loving.

Lady love, your love is peaceful like the summers breeze.

A lyric has to mean something to me, something that has happened to me.

When love brings so much joy, why must it bring so much pain?

I want to be happy and free, living and loving for me.

Marry someone who flatters you. Because I've written 80 books since 'War Horse' but when my wife reads one, all she says is, 'It's quite good, but it's not as good as 'War Horse, ' is it?'

The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.

Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success.

See you on the other side, kid.

I think it's innate in human nature to want to make a difference, to make your life meaningful.

We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.

none but the unhappy are worthy of friends; if your soul had never suffered never could you have entered mine.

Anytime a church squabbles over minor things you can be certain they do not have a clear picture of what they need to be.

I have actually gotten to like fear.

At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue profundity.