To love me, my family does not need to understand me.

When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.

You don't need great faith to move mountains, you only need to use the poor faith you say you have.

A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. ... When any living organism is attacked, its whole function seems to aim toward reproduction.

Go for the desire you dare to dream.

We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.

If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed a very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life.

If I could do something with Paul McCartney it would be just amazing. Or Eric Clapton.

Yes," I said. "My name is seven-five-nine-nine-three-nine-ex-dash-one. Junior.

I didn't go to Latin America thinking, 'I'm gonna write a book. This is what I'm gonna do.' I went there to work for UNICEF and to learn.

Whoever invented smooth jazz, man, I wanna kill 'em: You're turning an art form into a hooker.

I'm not sure that I recovered, but I also know that I cannot afford going back yet. I see how much the kids are happier, I guess, here and I think that they might have a better future not hiding.