So many groups fail because they spend all their time in the clubs. Work pours in and they can't handle it because of late-night drinking.

As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.

The most important thing about recovery is to pass the message on.

I was always the one left behind. Out in the streets, when they saw me they'd say, That's just one of the Bee Gees.

I'll be honest. We copied everyone... the Beatles, the Bachelors. It was the only way people would even listen to you.

We don't mind being ripped apart, but don't rip the songs apart. They're like our kids.

I write the music because I can't really write lyrics. But I can write chords like Robin's never heard of. So I provide the music for them to add the lyrics to.

No one knew me until I met my wife Lulu. Lulu's mother used to ask, Which one is Maurice? For six months she thought Lulu was dating Barry.

I suppose being his twin made me understand Robin that much more easily.

I was always the sexy bass player in the background while Robin stood centre. Barry and I played it up a bit, gave 'em a bit of thigh.

I heard my brother's voice even though we were apart. I then answered the phone and found him on the line.

What your father never understood, is that what he loved most about her was her unbridled love and freedom to live her own life. He loved her colors and viewed her like paint.

A good half of the art of living is resilience.

Or deep down, maybe there was more. Maybe I wanted someone to figure out who wrote the note and secretly come to my rescue.Maybe. I don’t know. But I was careful never to give myself away.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

'Tis always morning somewhere, and aboveThe awakening continents, from shore to shore,Somewhere the birds are singing evermore.

The inner life of any great thing will be incomprehensible to me until I develop and deepen an inner life of my own.

Everyday life is a stimulating mixture of order and haphazardry. The sun rises and sets on schedule but the wind bloweth where it listeth.

To know that you are a prisoner of your mind is the dawn of wisdom.

Someone out there was about to find that their worst nightmare was a maddened Librarian. With a badge.

[E]xcess in the practice of virtue is no less imperfect than the lack of it.