... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both.

There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close.

...we confidently say that it's not worth trying to reach any conclusions merely because we decide to stop halfway along the path that would lead us straight to them.

... we are only ever pretending to ourselves, never to other people ...

Authoritarian, paralyzing, circular, occasionally elliptical stock phrases, also jocularly referred to as nuggets of wisdom, are a malignant plague, one of the very worst ever to ravage the earth.

... the best way of killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.

... time is a master of ceremonies who always ends up putting us in our rightful place, we advance, stop, and retreat according to his orders, our mistake lies in imagining that we can catch him out.

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I've been working nonstop since I was 15. I don't even know how to chill out.

I still remember when my teacher told me that football wouldn't give me anything to eat

I do find myself drawn more to pieces that I feel are wrestling with the way that we're living now, what we're all going through.

They keep the old business. We keep the ongoing business.

I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.

I love doing voice-over. It's one of my favorite things.

One of the most interesting things in the world to me is the vast difference between what people say they are going to do, and what they actually do.

There is indeed a business like show business. It's the news.

The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.

It seems to me there are good deficits and bad deficits. Now, we have a deficit that comes from the militarization of our society and our policy and our approach to the global arena.