I've always been very outspoken and a supporter of the underdog, because I'm one as well. I

Nature has a way of deadening us to traumatic events, until we're ready to deal with it. And once you do, it's a volcanic reaction.

San Francisco is poetry. Even the hills rhyme.

I've been poor and neglected, in the middle and cherished, then rich and miserable and back to the middle and now happy. I've lived it all.

Thanks to my son, I've learned to laugh at myself. Laughter has been my saving grace.

Everyone brings their own perceptions when reading a book about a real person. At the end they will take away whatever they wish.

There's more women likes to be loved than there is of those that loves.

I asked myself one day, 'Would it be humane of me to completely destroy my mind and soul for the music?' I knew immediately that the answer was no, so I knew I had to.

Live your life as if everyone will discover what you do and who you are. If no one holds your secrets, there’s nothing to compel you to male choices that are not your own.

"Mommy we're not going to be poor again are we?" "Not as long as you have that rare blood type."

Reason forbade me many things which, Instinctively, my nature was attracted to; And a perpetual loss I feel if, knowing, I believe a falsehood or deny the truth.

Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I’m sort of crazy baffoon who can’t make up his mind what to do in life

Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they posses, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than merely in having it.

He did not say: You will not be assailed, you will not be belabored, you will not be disquieted, but he did said: You will not be overcome.

My obligation is to do the right thing. The rest is in God's hands.

Like so many addicts, I'd thought that if I could only sort out my life, I could then sort out my drinking. It was a revelation to see that it would be simpler the other way around