My father was a management genius. But what I really wanted was a dad.

To give someone a piece of your heart, is worth more than all the wealth in the world.

Don't be afraid to be different.

If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, and make a change.

Never rush an emotion; everything in life has a rhythm, it is the pauses and silences that speak the truth.

Heal the World, make it a better place, for you and for me and the entire human race, there are people dying, if you care enough for the living, make a better place for you and for me.

No one should judge what I've done with my life, not unless they've been in my shoes every horrible day and every sleepless night.

The deeper I go into myself, the stronger I become, because I realize that my real self is much bigger than any fear.

I don't care if the whole world is against you or teasing you or saying you are not gonna make it. Believe in yourself, no matter what.

Magic is easy if you put your heart into it.

Music is the soundtrack to life. It plays the melody of our being.

We cannot learn something new and stick to it without a modular approach to application, positive reinforcement and a real change of environment.

If every community acts collectively, the city shall be clean.

It's like being the general of an army [directing a film]. You send people out to die.

I will defend everybody, every man, woman and child who's come to California for a better life and has contributed to the well-being of our state.

Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.

I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book.

death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more - will you know about the act of death.

Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of his skepticism and join the battle.

When I first started listening to music intently as a teenager, I was always sitting there with a biro or a pencil, drawing. That's how I absorbed it all.

Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.