Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead

I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

The world to him no longer seemed a math equation but rather a complex piece of art, a masterpiece of things not easily understood.

Open to others as you would like them to open to you.

Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.

I wash my cars and clean the garage a lot. That's kind of my thing.

We must not build on the sands of an uncertain and everchanging science...but upon the rock of inspired Scriptures.

I thought I would spend the rest of my life searching for little reminders of you.

I had this weird, nomadic little tent with a rug over it, like a booth where I'd sing the vocals.

There are very few joys in life greater than spontaneity. Spontaneity means to be in the moment; it means acting out of your awareness, not acting according to your old conditionings.

Whatever business you are in, every company can shoot for the start in their own way.

The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.