While they flail about, you will remain calm in the knowledge that you possess strength from within.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what others won't.

There’s one thing about Black Sabbath which should not be understated: If Black Sabbath is missing any one of its members it’s no longer Black Sabbath.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

...talent is evenly distributed. You never know how many talented people are out there until you invite and inspire them to be creative.

What the orators want in depth they give you in length.

Applying the axioms of physical science to human life has something reprehensible to it.

I like having that juxtaposition where you can have a very triumphant sounding song and then throw in all this crazy imagery. That's part of the fun of writing, you know?

You can't throw him back because he doesn't meet the legal size limit.

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.

Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.

I am no longer a curmudgeon. I am a curmudgeon emeritus.

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.

I mean, m-m-m-my you're like pelican fly