When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.

And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them...The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey.

The end comes when the infinites arrive.

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues.

If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.

think think think until you blink

I should have told her at the time. I could have taken a deep breath, looked away, and forced myself to say it.

The primary reason for underachievement and failure is that the great majority of people don't decide to be successful.

Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige.

Beginnings are always messy.

I think people who come into my home feel comfortable and welcome and loved. And the biggest thing in my living room (the fireplace) is in and of itself an expression of love.

My love for my country is my religion.

maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as making your mark into the world.

I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.