The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy filled with hope and thought 'Now I understand the whole point of work of life of love.'

I hope we never get to the point that we put ourselves in Jesus' place. But when I read the New Testament basically we get three mandates: to love God to love each other and to take care of the least among us. And I think this is at least a step in the right direction.

To my great disappointment it appears that the politics of division are making a big comeback. Many Americans share my disappointment - especially those who were filled with great hope a few years ago when then-Senator Obama announced his candidacy in Springfield Illinois.

I doubt I'll be singing forever because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs.

I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people.

When too many Americans don't vote or participate some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

Present n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement not a hope not a wish but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.

I'm a married man. If I want sex at this particular point in my life I go home for it.

There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness the volatility the wholesale lack of impulse control all would be close to clinical conditions if they occurred at another point in life. In adolescence they're just part of the behavioral portfolio.

Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.

Although I have lived in London I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me and it has been too.

All things on earth point home in old October sailors to sea travellers to walls and fences hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds the lover to the love he has forsaken.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

If we got into a situation where people start burning our records then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.