No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.

I think it's your duty to overcome what you inherit in life.

My life is a party thrown for me by my own decisions.

Apologizes are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move, on you can grow.

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.

I got fired when I was a dishwasher at Denny's. That set me back a little bit. You don't realize how important dishwashers are until you do the job.

The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge.

I was brought up to never lie. Sure, I have. But in the final mix, the lies I've told are far outweighed by the truths I've lived.

The mark of a man is one who knows he can' control his circumstances - but he can control his responses.

I went and did some things [rehab], and then of course my life didn't change that much [for a while], but I never missed work.

I don't know if I'm addicted to fame; fame is more of an unpleasant circumstance of an addiction to creativity.

Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures.

The Ed Hardy man is confident with a strong sense of personal style. He is not afraid to be seen and take risks. He enjoys comfort and flexible style, yet he wants to stand apart from the crowd.

If you worry about disaster all the time, that's what you're going to get.

People are scared in this country [the US], to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful - very powerful.

Winners don't eat wieners.

There are some extraordinary fathers, who seem, during the whole course of their lives, to be giving their children reasons for being consoled at their death.

A good landscape painting is not just a demonstration of competent application of paint. It must offer a feeling of homage to the subject.

It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning, and it is astonishing how fragile that can be.

All things began in Order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again, according to the Ordainer of Order, and the mystical mathematicks of the City of Heaven.

You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.