Take note and give thanks for all the good things present in your life.

God is a philosophical black hole – the point where reason breaks down.

Look at yourself and look into the eyes you've been looking at your entire life. Recognize your SPIRIT. You are the reflection of life.

The real difference between relationship politics and transactional politics is loyalty. [Barack] Obama doesn't seem to expect it.

Go see, ask why, show respect.

It is the way of my people to use light words at such times and say less than they mean. We fear to say too much. It robs us of the right words when a jest is out of place.

Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.

Happiness is the summit of a high mountain; we can visit it, but we can't stay there! We are forced to go down to the valleys of sadness.

Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.

Sometimes two people stay together for the sake of the kids - two kids who sat under a full moon and pledged to be forever true.

I have tons of tunes, maybe 30 tunes that I still think are great, and only because some jerk at a record company didn't think it was great, it's not out there.