My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.

The attitude you have as a parent is what your kids will learn from more than what you tell them. They don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it.

The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.

I believe that we form our own lives, that we create our own reality, and that everything works out for the best.

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

They put me in a holding cell with a black kid and a white kid and a Chinese kid. We're the United Nations of juvenile delinquents.

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

The moving light, rejoicing in its strength, Sped from the pyre of pine, and urged its way, In golden glory, like some strange new sun...

The problem with ebook filesharing is simply one of scale. But I think the "piracy" problem is massively over-rated.

I feel like a Mac store! I have a Canadian iPhone, an American iPhone and an iPad. I'm constantly downloading music to iTunes.

There are certain things I do not talk about.

More than anything, I think the best thing you can do as an artist is just stay as true to yourself as possible and hope that your fan base will appreciate that.

The biggest thrill you can have is to tell people one of your songs, and have them be able to hum it.

On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.

The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.