So much of life is in the smallness of moments...but they are harder to mark. So we need the grander celebrations and occasions. People like to feel significant

I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.

But then I realize that even if I did have a soul, it’s not as though someone else would be there. It would only be more of me.

The only chance of success is to trust in your own power.

Sometimes you can't speak, not because others won't let you, but because you are afraid of what you'll say.

You always have something left to lose. Until, of course, you die.

People can be miracles.

Everyone dies. The don't all have the chance to see what they wanted most. At least I've seen the Above. At least I've known True.

I have about as much artistic talent as a cluster of colour-blind hedgehogs in a bag.

It is our beliefs, more than our experiences, that determine life's possibilities.

Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings.

I have seen children dying of hunger. Over against a dying child La Nausee cannot act as a counterweight.

I have the skills to pay the bills; you know, I can really sing, and write great songs.

You can still see the shadow from when the Zeppelin floated over America; it took like Islam in the desert . . .

I have 2 weapons; my arms, my legs and my brain.

You want to live your own life, but when you have fame, there are certain things you can't get away with.

...if you expect people to try to do things your way, you're going to have to give some hints as to what that way is.

For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that is really for all humankind.