Selfishness is easy to find. Selflessness is a much rarer beast.

Faith is blind belief. Atheism is blind disbelief. No one has all the information needed to take up such fixed positions.

Human knowledge is but a ripple on the water's surface. To go deeper, we must accept the fact that we don't know everything

When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it.

Ah, sleep, clothe me in thy velvet cloak.

Great leaders lead by example, not by making an example of others.

The only way to ensure democracy functions correctly is to question its governance constantly. Fail to do so and you may awake to find yourself living in a police state.

For even in the pit of darkness, the beacon of humanity can always shine through.

There's nothing man can imagine that nature hasn't already created a zillion times better.

The bravest thing David Bowie ever did was to go on stage after Queen at Live Aid.

Fantasy is a reaction to the constraints of reality.

Sometimes the darkness finds us, that will always be inevitable. If one chooses to manifest such feelings creatively, then it really isn't darkness at all.

Time is the friend of the wonderful business, the enemy of the mediocre.

Crazy is such a misunderstood term. I like to think that I march to the beat of my own drummer.

I'm surrounded by great friends and family. I don't know what I would do without them.

My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God. I'm a child of that.

Seeing someone reading something I wrote on an airplane - things like that are pretty awesome.

In rehearsal you have a good accident that you can repeat.In the movies if you have a good accident you hope the camera's running.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I'm really going to enjoy it.

I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name.