I played a lot of football when I was younger. I'm a good receiver, actually.

Life unravels the way it does, and it has an effect on you, but you have to take responsibility for dealing with it.

I feel like I'm on top of the world. Honestly, I feel like I've climbed a very giant mountain, and I'm just standing right on top with my arms wide open and breathing rarified air.

It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance.

Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.

I don't eat meat, fish, or eggs. I was never a big meat-eater, but I've got more energy now.

When I first saw you, I saw love And the first time you touched me, I felt love And after all this time, You're still the one I love.

I think there's something odd about eating another living anything.

I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.

Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

I'd have opened a bloody library if I'd wanted to be quiet.

A grave is such a quiet place.

The most important thing in business is honesty, integrity, hard work familynever forgetting where we came from.

In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.

I like doing sequels. Basically, I think it's a fun thing to follow characters in time. In real time.

The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.

One of the springs of poetry is joy.

Lord of the Rings is a good thing for us because it opened the door for the genre in general. Ursula Le Guin's stories are very different from Lord of the Rings.

We're all doing what we love. It's how we express ourselves - operating in a space where you don't know if something is possible or not.