My mother used to sit at the foot of my bed and she would share her dreams with me.

This fork in the road happens over a hundred times a day, and it's the choices that you make that will determine the shape of your life.

There's always a way through things if you work hard enough and look close. It all depends on your level of determination.

Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never.

But avoidance allows you to believe that you're making all kinds of strides when you're not.

You are bigger than your circumstances.

One point of view gives a one dimensional world.

I've learned in my life that you really don't know what's possible until you're already doing it.

Life has a way of doing that; one minute everything makes sense, the next, things change. People get sick. Families break apart, your friends could close the door on you.

If I want to be a loving, generous, giving person, I'm not going to test the waters. I'm simply going to be a loving, generous, giving person.

Life takes on the meaning that you give it.

Find your hidden talents, your hidden potentials, your hidden purposes and convert them into a better business for the benefit of the entire world.

When you are destined for greatness, it shows in everything you do.It becomes you. Greatness becomes you.

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

There's always gonna be rock n' roll bands, there's always gonna be kids that love rock n' roll records, and there will always be rock n' roll.

I didnt want to write a book that suggested that magic good/technology bad.

French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.

Parents must be treated with respect, whether one wants to strangle them or not.

For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery.

I thought it would not hurt to remind you that love is a powerful force in this world, invisible though it seems.

Thirty years ago I was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, and given two and a half years to live. I have always wondered how they could be so precise about the half.