Still trying to save the world?” “Always, ” I said, “and in case you haven’t noticed, it’s working. The world is still here.

Caring for someone is scary, because you both know how it feels to lose someone in the span of a heartbeat.

Wealth can be created. Wit and intelligence can't.

Don't let the fear of losing them keep you from loving them.

Everyone was going crazy, like they’d just witnessed the birth of Jesus and the invention of electricity at the same time. Jude was a rock star, their savior, and they were paying him homage.

I’m a realist, ” I said. “Lying and making promises about forever is almost as bad as one day at a time.

It's always amazing how when we're sure we've lost something for good, it winds up finding us.

Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.

Whether voting Republican or Democrat, the result is the same: A corrupt corporate government.

In a thousand years we shall all forget The things that trouble us now.

I have to feel connected before I record and the song has to spark something inside me. Very few songs do that. I guess it's a good process because I love all of my music.

The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty.

In the digital age of "overnight" success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.

Devaluations are never easy.

If you want to know why you didn't make a boat -- I'll tell you. You're just out there hammering the water. You're killing fish, not rowing.

If these are indeed the spirits of Englishmen and Englishwomen who have passed over into the next world, surely they would know how to form a proper queue?

To be truly free, it takes more determination, courage, introspection, and restraint than to be in shackles.