Staying present and staying myself in the midst of others is important.

I know that human beings are better together than they are apart, as much as I fought that all my life.

Every day is the start of something beautiful.

It's amazing, the look in your eyes, like you could save me, but you won't even try

Music for me is this thing that's sort of saved my life over the course of my whole life, whether it be writing songs or listening to other people's stuff.

The only way I get back to my center is either by talking to my wife or by spending time by myself.

The thing that makes me feel most alive would be when I'm hanging out with my family and feeling my connection with them and feeling safe and content in that.

I just want my kid to not hate and to be a good human. That's what you try to do. You hope that they are the next evolution of your thing.

When I play, I open up. I'm in the heat of the performance and it's a healing thing. It's great!

When I was a kid I just had headphones on all the time, and it changed the way I see things and the way I interpret things.

I think I feel vulnerable most of the time. I feel on guard. I've gotten pretty good at putting my fists down and kind of allowing the world to be, so that I don't feel threatened as much.

Of course I loved books more than people.

We obtained literature by our own efforts, it is a product of our own life, and that is why we love it so much and hold it so dear, why we pin our hopes on it.

When our focus is toward a principle of relatedness and oneness, and away from fragmentation and isolation, health ensues

Life goes on, and I'm moving on to the next thing, but I hope the soaps that are still running will thrive. They have millions of loyal viewers.

I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.

He found a stuffed animal, a fluffy wolf with bright blue eyes, and was immediately drawn to it. "I want to get this for her. It is telling me it needs to go home with us." Francesca laughed at him.

I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level.

Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort.

My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn't worth discussing.

I think that social networking makes people more connected, yet more distant, so there are people with less ties to real friend groups and less a sense of self.