Normal day let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you love you bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.

Only your children’s grandchildren may remember our stories, but the stories are not what makes a life. It’s living with a smile and a free spirit that will ripple throughout the stars.

Apparently he was not the sharpest quill on the porcupine if you get my drift.

There is no more "front" and "rear" where Fobbit-types would go to hide out in safer locations. In Iraq and Afghanistan, you engaged in a theater of operations that's 360 degrees at all times.

My uncle was a music producer and even he'd tell me to get a proper job. I tried to get him to give me five grand to make an album - it didn't happen.

Other times I say: I would very much like to try to do something with this music, but after playing for a few minutes, I have to break off.

Being able to touch so many people through my businesses and make money while doing it, is a huge blessing.

That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground.

Ko Un is a crucial poet for the twenty-first century, and this is an enormously fresh and vivid translation.

Look at my face. Does it look like I can take a good hit?

Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.