“The one thing I wished for my children is that they’d be readers.”

It’s a fairytale so tragic there’s no prince to break the spell. I don’t believe in magic, but for you I will.

Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.

Now everyone dreams of a love faithful and true, But you and I know what this world can do. So let’s make our steps clear so the other may see. And I’ll wait for you…should I fall behind wait for me.

Show a little faith there is magic in the night. You ain’t a beauty, but hey you’re alright, and that’s alright with me.

The first thing that I do when I come out every night is to look at the faces in front of me, very individually.

All people have is hope. That’s what brings the next day and whatever that day may bring. A hope grounded in the real world of living, friendship, work, family.

At the end of every hard day, people find some reason to believe.

The school system only recognizes one type of intelligence. There are so many different types of intelligence.

Music doesn’t tell you where to go. It says, go find your own place. That’s what it told me.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

A man armed with a rhyming dictionary is a dangerous man.

I’m ready to grow young again.

I’m ready to grow young again.

I’m ready to grow young again.

The light from the oncoming train focuses the mind.

The light from the oncoming train focuses the mind.

I love playing for my country, getting the support. Especially for the kids and everybody, showing my example of what I can achieve so early. And maybe they can achieve it, too, just to get that in their minds.

When I got the red card all the Chelsea players come around. It felt like I had a lot of babies around me.

People expect star kids to be perfect – horse-riding, fighting.

I believe when your children are born that you are reborn in some fashion.

The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul climbs upward into the light eternal. And there is no fear for any child of man, for inevitably he climbs towards God.

I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

I have so much respect for my opponents; many of them watched the races as little children and were supporting me!

A child who has been severely punished for sex play is not necessarily less inclined to continue; and a man who has been imprisoned for violent assault is not necessarily less inclined toward violence.