Some people tell me that they like what I do, which is great, of course. The perfect irony and truth is that I need them much more than they need me.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what others won't.

There’s one thing about Black Sabbath which should not be understated: If Black Sabbath is missing any one of its members it’s no longer Black Sabbath.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

Beauty and grace command the world.

funny how our heartswere designed to loveso fiercely.but break ever so gently.

Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be.

Time is the best appraiser of scientific work, and I am aware that an industrial discovery rarely produces all its fruit in the hands of its first inventor.

Time matters because we are finite, because time is the medium in which we live our lives.

The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong.

Everything in television is dumbing down even further and it won't stop until somebody dies.

Guitar comes more out of its limitations for me, like putting it in a weird tuning and then just go places.

You can't fix stupid. You can't fix a neutered dog you can't fix a garage door and hey, you can't fix stupid

I always try to keep my constituents as up-to-date as possible with what's going on here in Washington.