My father moved out a week later. I hugged him at our front door and couldn't bear to watch him leave with so much luggage.

Inside my house, nobody was home, except everybody, but it was easy to feel like those were one and the same.

All fathers are liars . . . If you want to be a father, you have to be prepared to become a liar.

Adults were constantly auditioning, but for what?

Cry your guts out because nothing is sadder than an adult who forgets how to be a child.

Love is like a bird, they flies everywhere, its free, but its hard to trust someone where they like to stay.

The reason why you don't see people looking like me is because I don't encourage that. I encourage you to be you.

In deep meditation, all of the things that we call life, all of the combinations of experiences, fall away.

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

I think the future of China's unknown, I don't know what direction it's going to go in. It could go in the right direction, it could. It could go in a very bad direction, too.

I don't fear death, it must be like a long sleep.

As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.

If there is one thing in this planet that has the power to bind people it is soccer.

Behind every great man is not a woman, she is beside him, she is with him, not behind him