My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.

Reality is hard. It is no walk in the park, this thing called life.

I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future

I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll

From the moment we walk out the door until we come back home our sensibilities are so assaulted by the world that we have to soak up as much love as we can get, simply to arm ourselves.

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.

When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or forget my younger days.

I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive.

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.

Sometimes it is the simplest, seemingly most inane, most practical stuff that matters the most to someone.

All I will tell you is that I play a small role in someone's happily ever after.

If we repay evil with good, then how do we repay the good?

The most amazing travellers were to humble to write about it

Beware the hobby that eats.

I want a big church wedding.

To disarm a zealot, teach him truth by precept, and mildness by example.

If people want new music then they are going to have to figure out a way to be patrons of the arts. And they will.

The root of suffering is resisting the certainty that no matter what the circumstances, uncertainty is all we truly have.

Since declaring that she would not serve in a second Obama administration, Clinton has dismissed suggestions that she will run in 2016.

You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?

History is a great dust heap.