Think only on the climb. Think on what you control

-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.

Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.

We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that moral ambiguity.

Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none

He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.

It is an alarming experience to be, in your person, representing Christianity to the natives.

The price we paid for the volumes of ourselves that we suffocated in the dark.

Embrace the glory of age.

My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed.

I think the guys are starting to rally around my leadership style and the way I do things. I've been waiting for this opportunity my whole life.

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

It was 22 years of work in a row, right up until 1987. Twenty-two years in a row-either on tour, writing an album, or recording an album. It wasn't until 1987 that I was able to take a breath.

The social Web is incredibly good at shining bright lights into dark corners.

Love the skinny model chicks but I prefer the thickness.

If there's any relevant influence we may have with an investor, with a studio, with a director, with an actor, I think we have to fight.