There’s risk inherent in most things that matter.

And now he smiled at me. All teeth. The way only people who hadn’t learned self-consciousnessknew how to smile.

The future is terrifying because it's full of stuff, not because it's empty.

Love doesn't just go away when it becomes inconvenient.

It's not what you do, it's what it means.

I rather choose to go through what will make me humble than to go for what will increase my pride to a level without limit

The power which resides in man is new in nature and none but he knows what that is which he can do nor does he until he has tried.

I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.

I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom.

I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life.

I keep attacking the villains, the know-nothings, the people who want to take our freedoms away.

I always thought that there was a really good chance that I wasn't going to get married.

There is no happiness for a society ruled by distrust.

The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one's life.

You never write down to the people - you write the best you can with the hope that someone else will feel the same way.