Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things

He said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there.

The past can't be changed, can it? It can just be forgiven.

Be thankful that you are on your feet, for there are people who can't even walk down the street. - RVM.

The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan.

If you're a citizen of the State of New York, your kid has as much a right as another kid to an education, and the best education. The money should be distributed equally to all.

In this life all that I have is my word and my balls and I do not break them for nobody.

You are allowed to be alive. You are allowed to be somebody different. You are allowed to not say goodbye to anybody or explain a single thing to anyone, ever.

Honour is purchas'd by the deeds we do.

I don't think about commercial concerns when I first come up with something. When I sit down at the piano, I try to come up with something that moves me.

That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.