There are so many people I love in the United States, and I've had such great adventures in this country and have been so well received by people here.

But nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight / Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight.

When you know even for a moment That it's your time Then you can walk with the power Of a thousand generations

One day you're waiting for the sky to fall, The next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all.

Sometimes the best map will not guide you, you can't see what's round the bend. Sometimes the road leads through dark places, sometimes the darkness is your friend

I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.

Little round planet in a big universe, sometimes it looks blessed, sometimes it looks cursed. Depends what you look at obviously, but even more it depends on the way that you see.

And I'm wondering where the lions are.

The trouble with normal is it only gets worse.

Beautiful rocks - beautiful grass Beautiful soil where they both combine Beautiful river - covering sky Never thought of possession, but all this was mine.

Gotta kick at the darkness til it bleeds daylight.

If fiction and fantasy books are escapism, then let an author write them so as to better equip the reader to face reality by the end.

The future is bright like a shining diamond.

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunder-storm is to the air.

A warrior thinks of death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.

If you play a king, it's better if everybody treats you like a king.

You know, I always wondered what it would have been like to just go to school, play football with the guys and go to the prom. Just like a 'regular person.'

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today. Fortunes were smaller then as well.

Kids don't seem to recognize when they're hungry until they're starving and in the emergency zone, so I'm like, "Who wants some apple slices and cheese?"

It is from your hands that Our Lord, in the person of the sick, seeks relief.