My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a hard relationship with my dad, he became a father figure to me.

I doubt love can do little else, if it cannot bring back people back from the dead.

James Potter

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

E. W. Howe

Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.

James Russell Lowell

I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me and so when I hit the stage I just sensed freedom. I sensed here's a place that I can have all the experiences of life and not feel uncomfortable about it.

Nick Nolte

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Confucius

Merely reading the Bible is no use at all without we study it thoroughly, and hunt it through, as it were, for some great truth.

Dwight L. Moody

Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

Morris West

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary.

Charles Caleb Colton

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

Horace

I believe that any single dream contains the essential message about our existence.

Frederick Salomon Perls

Even from a listening end now, I'm still completely a fan of music.

James Iha

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

Elton John