When they die, no one will ever know that they lived on this earth.

I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.

You have two choices. you can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or you can stand up for yourself and decide to be somebody important.

There is magic, but you have to be the magician. You have to make the magic happen.

My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.

Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.

To be successfull you need friends and to be very successfull you need enemies.

A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.

Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.

you are my sun, and if the sun went out, the shadow would die.

No sooner do I conquer a bad habit than I become the biggest critic of anyone who still does what I just stopped doing.

The best part is still ahead of me - I haven't experienced my 'good old days' yet.

the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.

The day of the android has dawned.

It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.

I'm flying to China and Japan - if you think Beckham is a big name, you should see me there.

The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, for kindness grows in this way.

In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.

I am not, and never was, and never could have been, a brutal scoundrel.

The most admirable method is that by which each wash of colour, large or small, is never disturbed. It admits of practically no overpainting, sponging or scrubbing. The colour stays where it is put.