Your commander would never lie to you. That's the vice president's job.

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.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Never mourn the loss of innocence, because it always brings the much greater gain of wisdom.

Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.

Accept that no matter where you go to work, you are not an employee you are a business with one employee, you. Nobody owes you a career. You own it, as a sole proprietor.

That stillness and vastness that enables the Universe to be, is not just out there in space...it is also within you.

The people we are in relationships with are always a mirror, reflecting our own beliefs, and simultaneously we are mirrors, reflecting their beliefs.

Certainly no valid answer is ever gained by excluding any factors of the problem; that was the Puritans' error.

I function as a channel from which music emerges from the chaos of noise.

For a person who lives 100 years in the future, the present comes as no surprise.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.