I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.

From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical.

Metallica is like the phoenix rising from the ashes. We set everything on fire, and this is what has risen from it - 'St. Anger' being the fire and 'Death Magnetic' being the phoenix.

I feel like I've matured more musically than I have personally. But I totally embrace what becoming older has to offer. I find the wisdom that comes with each passing year is a trip.

The movie 'Black Cat,' from 1934, is one of my favorite movies.

A lot of the main characters in horror movies are outsiders as well, so that outsider syndrome reverberates within horror fans and geeky collectors. It's kind of a rallying call that brings fans and collectors together who are a little socially retarded, maybe.

It really shocked me just to hear of the fans' response to 'St. Anger' not having guitar solos.

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.

You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that death is something to which we never become calloused.

Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.

I'm human. I'm a person. I would love to be in a relationship with a man. I would love to find the right man; I think that's natural - that's what we all want.

I am just as ordinary as anyone else, and I also have my problems, but I also am responsible for my own health. So I'll be on that exercise bike, I'll be out there walking and try to improve my health and diet as much as I'm expecting of other Tasmanians.

I am hopeful that one day I will meet that right man and will have a very happy life partner.

I thank God that I can say on my death bed that I am a virtuous woman.

Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.

Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.

When I was 16, I felt very relieved to discover cinema. It was like an island where I could see life and death from another perspective. Every young person should be interested in that island. It's a beautiful place.

I travel, I read, I write, I have other lives. But when I have a camera, I know that's my country, my island.

When you're an adult, things mellow out. I think when you're a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.

I feel like I've always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.

When I started making music, I was like, 'This is something I can believe I was meant to do.'

You can never learn enough about music.

You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you're okay with who you are or where you came from.

I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.

You need to be imagining all the time, imagining yourself outside the walls of your own skull.

Home will always be Northern Ireland but my schedule means for the next few years I won't be there as much. I can't do the same things that I did a year ago. That is I'm something conscious of, but I'm not sad about it. It's fine.

Going to the gym is great for your body, but it's also great for your mind.

I wanted to make a point of basing myself at home, being close to my family. I'll never be able to repay Mum and Dad for what they did, but at least they know they'll never have to work another day. I'll do whatever it takes to look after them.

The more we learn, the more we will be confronted with decisions that we've never had to make before about life, about death, about parenting.

He that fears death loses the joys of life.

I entreat masters to live a good life and faithfully to instruct their scholars, especially that they may love God and learn to give themselves to knowledge, in order to promote His honour, the welfare of the state, and their own salvation, but not for the sake of avarice or the praise of man.

If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.

Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.

May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.

None of us, in our culture of comfort, know how to prepare ourselves for dying, but that's what we should do every day. Every single day, we die a thousand deaths.

If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society.

I have an interesting perspective on depending on others. I think it gives people a chance to serve. And I'm not so much big on independence, as I am on interdependence. I'm not talking about co-dependency, I'm talking about giving people the opportunity to practicing love with its sleeves rolled up.

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.

Death and the dice level all distinctions.

The day I am not able to fly will be a sad day for me.

I have always been very confident and very upbeat about the future potential of India. I think it is a great country with great potential.

My most visible goal is to do something in nutrition to children in India, and pregnant mothers. Because that would change the mental and physical health of our population in years to come.

I will certainly not join politics. I would like to be remembered as a clean businessman who has not partaken in any twists and turns beneath the surface, and one who has been reasonably successful.

Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.

There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast.