No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.

Surely the world we live in is but the world that lives in us.

From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.

Truth be told, there wasn't a single one of them who didn't deserve a lightning bolt from the Almighty. Everything else was straight mercy.

There are few sorrows however poignant in which a good income is of no avail.

I think most beauty tips that work and last are kind of old.

Procrastination is a lazy man's apology.

At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn't expecting it.

Failure is what you may need to eventually succeed.

Madness is the first step towards unselfishness. Be mad and tell us what is behind the veil of "sanity". The purpose of life is to bring us closer to those secrets, and madness is the only means.

Only if we are capable of dwelling, only then can we build

For years I drove a big Ford F250 pickup. That was my ride because two-thirds of my work was wood work, and I'm always driving up to Northern California, where I harvest salvaged trees.

Even writers need relief from words.