She's got electric boots, a mohair suit, you know I read it in a magazine.

There's a time for everyone, If they only learn, that the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn.

Don't let the sun go down on me Although I search myself, it's always someone else I see I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free But losing everything is like the sun going down on me

It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our place, on the path unwinding.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

Ask anyone. If it hadn't been for Elvis, I don't know where popular music would be. He was the one that started it all off, and he was definitely the start of it for me.

But you know, I have a pretty good relationship with the press and the paparazzi. It's just when they step over the line that, you know, enough's enough.

Don't judge the picture by the frame, every man is not the same

Live for each second without hesitation

Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, 'that’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.'

Better to build a bridge than a wall.

If you hate to think, you are not different from some who is peeing on his academic certificates. The goal of education is to help you to think and lead.

During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.

I had been a college teacher. I had taught Greek mythology.

Once the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained.

I'm afraid of elevators, because they are an enclosed space, but I get in.

As long as one can suffer, one is living....live and suffer until life is gone.

I try to make movies that I love and that I'm passionate about and that I'm proud of.

I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.

The real reality is always just around the corner.

Strategy is worthless unless you can act on it.