And Quotes

Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.

We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we’re faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off.

When you're out there in Vancouver doing your thing, and then you come down and you see how positive people are - people who are so jazzed and so supportive.

Only mind has sight and hearing; all things else are deaf and blind.

I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me. The exultation floods me.

I've been riding for 36 years. I started when I was 14-years-old. I was one of those crazy guys, riding wheelies up and down the streets, all the time. I love riding. It's in my blood.

Often, the disparities in the ways men and women are treated are subtle; there are not these clear barriers that you have to break down.

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

The capacity to be patient, to bear with others through thick and thin, is within the reach of anyone.

The best graphics are about the useful and important, about life and death, about the universe. Beautiful graphics do not traffic with the trivial.

And love is love, in beggars and in kings.

There'll always be Christmas as long as a light Glows in the window to guide folks at night, As long as a star in the heavens above, Keeps shining down... there'll be Christmas and love.

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

The anguish of death hangs over and leads the human spirit to wonder about the mysteries of existence, man's destiny, life, the world.

Do you know why they call a drummer's seat a throne? Because drummers are kings and queens.

The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster. Evolve or die: that is our only choice now.

Separation of Church and State is the perineum of America and the episiotomy didn't hold.

For non-state terror actors, the United States must develop the ability, no matter how difficult, to track down and incapacitate those responsible and do it rapidly.

With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the Nobel Prize back from Al Gore.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives.

You'll never get anywhere unless you're independent of the good and bad opinion of others. Be fearless.

It can be the best of relationships and the worst of relationships - often at the same time. The bond between a mother and daughter is one of the strongest, but it's also among the most complicated.

Progress in Iraq has always been about teams of people and teams of teams - and ultimately about young men and women, Iraqi as well as people from the coalition.

It's a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there's a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. But I guess that's how some of us conduct our lives.

I'm drawn between the light and dark.

The current version of... separation of church and state says you can be salt, and you can be light, but only inside the four walls of the church.

Everyone's got to be for a child to have a home and love. I mean I don't know anyone who would be against that.

Music is the one universal language. It's your best friend when the chips are down, and it's better than any energy drink when you're feeling it.

I'm a morning "spinner." That's usually when my brain is thinking too much and I don't necessarily see things positively. So I sit myself down and remember that I'm making it up.

Your body is malleable; you can sculpt it over time with daily habits of diet and exercise. The law of accommodation reminds us that the body may change slowly, but it will change.

When in haste, rest in the present. Take a deep breath and come back to here and now.

Life is filled with secrets. You can't learn them all at once.

My job is all about getting inside another person's mind and thoughts.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Whatever lives is granted breath But by the grace and sufferance of Death.

If you would govern a state of a thousand chariots (a small-to-middle-size state), you must pay strict attention to business, be true to your word, be economical in expenditure and love the people.

I hear YouTube, Twitter and Facebook are merging to form a super Social Media site - YouTwitFace.

Love and hate are cruel, only liking is kind

Fashion comes and goes but style lasts forever

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

There is no better news, than the fact that Jesus can actually turn a life upside down and save it.

If you can't find your own center and love for yourself, nothing else works.

The countries of the American continent and the adjacent islands are for the United States the natural marts of supply and demand.

Our thoughts, words and actions produce feelings; and these feelings become the currency with which we produce our life experiences.

My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guys. I was a little god.

Ideas do not always come in a flash but by diligent trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought.

Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.

Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.