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.

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.

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.

I just hope that I'll stay around musically for as long as I can. I love to think that I will still be satisfying myself and other people as a musician until the day I die.

Salvation belongs to God.

Remember why we live. Remember warmth, remember good food. Remember friends, and song, and evenings spent around the hearth.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another

The best of all possible marriages is a seesaw in which first one, then the other partner is dominant.

Nietzsche's ideas and plans: for example, the idea of giving up the whole wretched academic world to form a secular monastic community.

I won all the blue ribbons for canning at the state fair.

Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.

Nobody's ever made me feel boring but I'm pretty boring. I acknowledge that in myself.

No experience is wasted. Everything in life is happening to grow you up, to fill you up, to help you become more of who you were created to be.