We are the Dragon-Hearted.

I know it is difficult to believe in your own courage or fortitude when everything inside of you feels weak and shattered. But do not believe what you feel. You will not be easily broken.

What else has kept any of us going, but love of someone or the memory of that love?

We weren’t that different after all, our souls laden with the same ache of loss, our hearts bursting with the same longing to save what remained of all we loved.

We will not die cornered and cowering in the ruins of a dead city.

Love does not always end well.

I am courageous at the decisive moment. But I need a good deal of start-up time, and I try to take as much as possible into consideration beforehand.

There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great many people, we do not think he can be an exceptionally good man.

Music is critical in our lives and culture. It's the inspiration that drives us. It's also the window to our souls. It's a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we're going.

It's never occurred to me to worry about my health, or that I'll get old, or that people will stop laughing at me.

I refuse to do anything that would help Republicans win a Senate seat in New York, and give the Senate majority to the Republicans.

Every night before bed, I rub my wife's feet. She says they're the best foot rubs on Earth.

There's a perception that's been put out into the marketplace by No Child Left Behind that schools aren't doing enough for kids.

If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.

If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself

I'm human; that's what people don't realize.