I thought [first girlfriend] was trying to make a fool out of me. Then I found out that she wasn't, and we went out. That's a very good example of how little confidence I had.

Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.

I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.

I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as well write the script.

Change is a stranger you have yet to know.

Without despair, we will share, and the joys of caring will not be erased. What has been, must never end, the joys of caring will not be replace.

People, you can never change the way they feel. Better let them do what they will. For they will, if you let them, steal your heart.

It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I've still got some work to do.

I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.

It doesn't matter what your boss thinks as long as he doesn't cry.

The less negative people you associate yourself with……the more positive your life becomes.

If you can remain as an atheist in a falling plane, then it means you are a real atheist!

I just do whatever it is that I believe I should do, regardless of the risks to my life.

Energy-saving technologies keep improving faster than they're applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource.

I admit it is better fun to punt than be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenths of the law of chivalry.

Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I've opened up my own pathology center.

The excellence of every art, must consist in the complete accomplishment of its purpose

My hope is Donald Trump will take a longer view and a more unified approach.

Green business is not about tie-dyed T-shirts. It's about transforming the industrial system itself into one that looks at all the connections.