The one power a man has that cannot be stripped from him is the power to do nothing.

We’re born alone and we die alone, I accept that. But why, God, do we have to be alone in the middle?

happy women get softer and rounder.

If you would have peace, genuine peace, you must accept all the aspects of your personality and learn to be comfortable with them.

I'm Irish!...When I feel well I feel better than anyone, when I am in pain I yell at the top of my lungs, and when I am dead I shall be deader than anybody.

Waiting is worse than knowing. Grief rends the heart cleanly, that it may begin to heal; waiting shreds the spirit.

Wine could become a place rather than a beverage.

Intuition is the voice of the spirit within you.

The pain we bring to others we cannot escape ourselves.

He took her into his arms again, using all his strength to be gentle, and let his lips touch hers so lightly he could hardly feel it.

There is a cruelty that lurks in some men’s souls which is only released when they have other men in their power.

Most aspects of my training didn’t agree with me. There wasn’t as much bossing around as I’d hoped for, and there was way too much following orders.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense.

As far as a career legacy, I just want to be known as the guy everyone had to watch for, constantly.

Worship is God's enjoyment of us and our enjoyment of him.

I'm not planning what I listen to, except when I think the music can guide me to some emotional place I want to be reminded of.

I believe in anthologies, although I know they offer only a glimpse.

Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare.

Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business.

Over 1,057,000 people have been killed by guns in the USA since John Lennon was shot and killed on 8 Dec 1980.