Some stories are true that never happened.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

I realise myself that hate wastes a lot of time and energy, and I would rather re-direct any energy that I have to good and positive use.

I love to sit on a mountain top and gaze. I don't think of anything but the people I care about and the view.

As much as I love music, in my mind, photography is what makes me the happiest - that's for sure.

Dad could talk about peace and love out loud to the world, but he could never show it to the people who supposedly meant the most to him: his wife and son. How can you talk about peace and love and have a family in bits and pieces - no communication, adultery, divorce? You can't do it, not if you're being true and honest with yourself.

Like most photographers, I try to capture a moment in my work.

I've been a philanthropist for all my life, and... I've had many involvements in humanitarian and environmental issues.

My dad's music was a great inspiration to me.

He was like a real dad, you know. We used to sit down with guitars and mess around.

My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.

Music is my religion.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead, you're made for life.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

Music is a safe kind of high.

I try to use my music to move these people to act.

My nature just changes.

I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it.

It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.

I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.

I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

Let us have peace.

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.

The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again.