I realized that that was how heartbreak occurred. Your heart wants something, but reality resists it. Death is inert and heavy, and it has no relation to your heart's desires.

Love and marriage are completely unrelated enterprises. Marriage bears as little resemblance to love as competing in the Olympics does to your afternoon jog.

We need leaders, we need political leaders and we need business leaders, and my hope for this book is that it helps create that next generation of business leaders that will lead us into the future.

The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view.

I like to kill people in my dreams, so when I fall asleep be sure not to come too close.

You don't give God authority over your life. He has it, totally.

Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.

All the great truths are basically trivial and so we have to find new ways, preferably paradoxical ways, of expressing them, in order to keep them from falling into oblivion.

A good person is the bad person's teacher. A bad person is the good person's task.

The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.

That's part of the reason I called the album 'Shoot From The Hip.' I did feel it was time to open up more.

Funk is the unending cycle of life. It's the ultimate concept—wherever your imagination will take it.