How many hopes and dreams are trapped within these bones? How many wonders lie never to be discovered? This is what war is. Desolation, despair and loss. There are no victors.

There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.

The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it.

Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild.

Like light and shadow, love and hate were inseparable. One could not exist without the other.

What's the difference between a classical guitar and a pizza? A pizza can feed a family of four.

The state is the soul of man enlarged under the microscope of history.

Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Music has given me a career. But even if it doesn't become yours it teaches you confidence and allows you to express your creativity.

While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action would be prostitutional.

I'm incredibly focused. I think it's a blessing and a curse. I'm so driven that nothing else can stand in my way. For many years, I didn't have a personal life.

Partings are the beginnings of new meetings. Beginnings happen because there are endings.

I beat my sons in real-life table tennis, but virtually, I get murdered. I download games on the iPhone that I'm addicted to - I'm a master at "Angry Birds."

The first spoken word poem I ever wrote was when I was 14 and I wrote it because I was accidentally signed up for a teen poetry slam. Because I loved poetry I said that I'd try it out.