The first duty of life is to live.

Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion

As long as you are curious, you defeat age.

When two partners always agree, one of them aint necessary.

Alcoholics are mostly disappointed men.

I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

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I judge a restaurant by the bread & the coffee.

I admire honesty and straightforwardness combined with true femininity.

You see, if you make believe hard enough that something is true, then it is true for you.

False love, desire, and beauty frail, adieu! Dead is the root whence all these fancies grew.

When you write, you put your thoughts in the public space. You get both positive and negative feedback.

If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words.

Every video from Russia is depressing, it's like they have their cameras set to sad.

Will, therefore, is the unbroken determination to exercise free choice as well as self-restraint, in spite of the unavoidable experience of shame and doubt in infancy.

So the first reason for studying Scripture is that it is a means of spiritual growth. There is none apart from the Word. It is God's primary tool to develop you as an individual.

I've always been ambitious since I was nine years old and that was never going to change.

Goodbyes were impossible, unless you didn't realize you were saying them.

Being a better songwriter, that's top of the list because I think that is a very intimidating, difficult task. I really admire people that just continue to write and get stronger.

There are passions that it is not for man to choose.