I have an optimistic view of everything. You have to, otherwise you'd go nuts.

There's a time for everyone, If they only learn, that the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn.

Don't let the sun go down on me Although I search myself, it's always someone else I see I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free But losing everything is like the sun going down on me

It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our place, on the path unwinding.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

Ask anyone. If it hadn't been for Elvis, I don't know where popular music would be. He was the one that started it all off, and he was definitely the start of it for me.

But you know, I have a pretty good relationship with the press and the paparazzi. It's just when they step over the line that, you know, enough's enough.

Don't judge the picture by the frame, every man is not the same

Live for each second without hesitation

Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, 'that’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.'

Better to build a bridge than a wall.

God is a God of second chances

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Idleness is the enemy of the soul.

The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.

Areas with lots of college students/young people can be a minefield, so I tend to avoid them.

Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.

Someone else's success is not your failure.

Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.

There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.

I don't want to make plop art — sculpture that just gets plopped down in places. I wouldn't want to litter every corner of the world with my sculpture.