The graceful wings of a dove lead to the endless imagination in a dream wings of pain.

Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.

You were born to be real, not to be perfect. You are here to be you, not to live someone else's life.

Wisdom is the best gift you can ever build. It gets you to unimagined heights and knowledge follows it.

I know that I do not know, and uncertainty, certainly, is the cruelest of words.

Earn Nicely, spend wisely and you will live happily.

Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned.

By learning to be more warm-hearted we can create a more compassionate world.

Hope lies in what action we take.

It is in the nature of the mind that the more we cultivate and familiarize ourselves with positive emotions, the more powerful they become.

The future can be different if we choose to make it so.

There is a field of unconditional love that surrounds all of us.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

I don't *ever* write about real people. Art is supposed to be better than that. If you want a slice of life, look out the window.

I never share credit or desserts.

The idea of being on television is to wear your T-shirt so people see it and maybe buy it.

It is not fashionable anymore, I suppose, to have a regard for one's mother in the way my brother and I had then, in the mid-1950s, when the noise outside the window was mostly wind and sea chime.

I don't think the people of Chicago should be robbed of their birthright to be perennial losers.

I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast.

Don't sell out who you really are to make others happy.

I have to tell you, and I don't mean this as sour grapes or anything, but it is hard to play for fans who see you all the time, makes it much harder.