My parents both came from very poor working-class families.

Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.

I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.

I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as well write the script.

Change is a stranger you have yet to know.

Without despair, we will share, and the joys of caring will not be erased. What has been, must never end, the joys of caring will not be replace.

People, you can never change the way they feel. Better let them do what they will. For they will, if you let them, steal your heart.

It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I've still got some work to do.

I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.

Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.

I think serial monogamy says it all.

I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself.

The truth is: We serve a generous God. He delights in giving us opportunities beyond our capabilities. He has promised to equip us, and remain with us through each bend in the road.

Funny the only two times we use the phrase "seeing someone" are when we are referring to being in a a relationship or getting psychological help.

Don't believe everything you think. You cannot be trusted to tell yourself the truth. Stay in The Word.

The mind is a phonograph which shall keep and echo the impressions of the past.

[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man.

Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain.

Investing is not as tough as being a top-notch bridge player. All it takes is the ability to see things as they really are.