If a despot like Adolf Hitler can think of 1000-year reign, why can't you think of a goal that is gonna last 100 years after you have gone?

Dreaming illustrates your hidden capacities and your unawakened ability.

You must accept that you can change and that a pattern of principles adhered to and used repeatedly will not only direct your life, but change it permanently.

Success is having consistent work habits.

What makes the great great? It is a sense of destiny.

Having a long term goal provides a catalyst for motivation at every waking moment.

As you move through life, set aside good ideas and give them to others to encourage and inspire.

Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity.

Life is not a dress rehearsal - every day is opening night.

Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool.

If our purpose of life is live in peace and happiness, then why are we always preparing for war?

Fame is such a waste. It can't even be recycled.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

The hardest part was when I was in high school not having a job and always being broke. I had to get to auditions without a car. I either took the bus or walked.

When people call me a role model it puts the fear of god into me, because I feel like I'm destined to fail.

You have actually waltzed with tremendous style, my sweet, O my sweet, crushed angel.

Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom, a shadow on those features fair and thin. And softly, from the hushed and darkened room, two angels issued, where but one went in.

If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.

Now I think all of us were born with a hole in our hearts, and we go around looking for the person who can fill it. You... you fill me up.

I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself would get in the way of being a musician and writer.