There is no wealth but life.

A man is seated on top of a tree in the midst of a burning forest. He sees all living beings perish. But he doesn’t realize that the same fate is soon to overtake him also. That man is fool.

Mostly, I think people are fake. Well, what do you expect? The fake world we live in conspires to make us all fakes.

Fox [News] is far and away the extreme example. They'll have a known holocaust denier debating a holocaust survivor.

Russia has now become a nation fueled by petro-dollars that is basically a KGB apparatchik-run government.

Usually for me, the melodic structures come out in the water and the lyrical ideas could come from a book I'm reading.

I grew up believing my generation would be better. We would be kinder, we would be more level-headed. We would be more loving. And so many people are missing.

I get very cranky when interrupted. I snap at people, sigh dramatically and slam my door shut.

Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth".

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

To die: - to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.