Aging is scary but fascinating, and great talent morphs in strange and often enlightening ways.

All I do know is that as we age the weight of our unsorted baggage becomes heavier...much heavier. With each passing year, the price of our refusing to do that sorting rises higher and higher.

As Branford Marsalis said in a beautiful essay he write upon Clarence's death, C was blessed with 'the power of musical intent.

As we'd slogged away for weeks on the Convention Hall stage in isolation, trying to pump life into our much-vaunted songbook, there'd been only one thing missing: you.

I'll love you with all the madness in my soul.

One is always at home in one's past...

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.

I thought I was bulletproof or Superman there for a while. I thought I'd never run out of nerve. Never.

A man who has drank his drinks cold at the same expense for one week can never be presented with them warm again.

Does it hurt?" The childish question had escaped Harry's lips before he could stop it. "Dying? Not at all," said Sirius. "Quicker and easier than falling asleep.

When I was a school kid in Coventry, I used to put up anti-apartheid stickers.

When we become leaders, we sometimes think we are now supposed to have the answers. Yes, we may have some answers, but we will be more effective when we engage others and get their opinions.

And I think because there is an essence of me that cares about other people and what other people think then that then makes me seem very sweet and polite.

The passage of time has not altered the capacity of the Redeemer to change lives.