No matter how rough things can be at times, many Americans are optimistic and on the move.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what others won't.

There’s one thing about Black Sabbath which should not be understated: If Black Sabbath is missing any one of its members it’s no longer Black Sabbath.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

120 million of us place the big bang 2, 500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer.

People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.

I don't think San Francisco needs defending. I never meet anyone who doesn't love the place, Americans or others.

Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!

I have a son. I love my son. I want everything that I do to be so safe that I would be happy to have my son operating it. That's my fundamental rule.

Happiness depends on how you accept, understand and surrender to situations.

Bodh Gaya is a land of enlightenment. Years ago, what Bodh Gaya got was Siddhartha but what Bodh Gaya gave to the world was Lord Buddha, the epitome of knowledge, peace and compassion.

Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.

My God, what do we want? What does any human being want?

I don't know that the stereotypical idea of what it is to be a child of somebody hugely famous necessarily comes into play in my life.