Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.

It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.

Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me.

Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.

The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery.

Then came a moment of renaissance, I looked up - you again are there, A fleeting vision, the quintessence Of all that's beautiful and rare.

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

The problem is when you write the album, you record all the instruments, you edit the whole thing and then you have to mix it. You start to get out of touch with the songs and it becomes math.

I don't eat much meat, fish, or poultry.

Often a retrospect delights the mind.

Don't lose the dreams inside your head They'll only be there until you're dead Dream

The brilliant thing about baseball is you're never really out of it - things can turn around in this game so quickly.

Every day women and children are killed and maimed by landmines long after wars are over.

I grew up always wanting to act, always knowing that's what I wanted to do.

My mother is extraordinary; she's a superwoman, like so many other single mothers who are out there.