Our happiness relies more on hope, faith and our inner values than on anything outside ourselves.
A little child in Ethiopia will die before this song is through.
You go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the day it's all about family.
I'm a rock star because I couldn't be a soccer star.
Elvis was the king. No doubt about it. People like myself, Mick Jagger and all the others only followed in his footsteps.
May you grow to be proud, dignified, and true, and do unto others as you'd have done to you.
It was early detection that saved my voice - and I imagine, my life.
All his life he [Robert Kennedy] had been schooled that nothing was worse than to finish second. But crushing fears are no longer so crushing once they are experienced.
I rewrite a great deal. I'm always fiddling, always changing something. I'll write a few words - then I'll change them. I add. I subtract. I work and fiddle and keep working and fiddling, and I only stop at the deadline.
I think jogging is bad for your health. All that pressure on the knees and back cannot be good for you.
Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust anything they haven't seen with their own eyes or touched with their own hands. (Jerusalem Prize acceptance speech, JERUSALEM POST, Feb. 15, 2009)