Always choose to trust yourself and your ability to listen.

You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

Every positive thought is a silent prayer which will change your life.

Your intelligence is a fire that can illuminate any darkness. Awaken and let your mind burn so brightly! You are alive for a reason!

You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion.

When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again.

Some people are so addicted to their misery that they will destroy anything that gets in the way of their fix.

Your health is a long-range investment that will pay-off when you need it most.

If you are really humble you will put yourself first when you need to take care of you.

By choosing positivity you become a contender for the human spirit giving hope to those in need.

Nothing was simple, certainly not simplification.

It is comparison that makes men happy or miserable.

I will wear the same thing for three years straight unless somebody, like, forces me not to. It's like, hey, I got this Gucci sweater.

I guess it would be if I wanted to, just lay back and predominantly write songs when I can't go on a stage anymore.

While making my picture window photographs, I came to think that every room was like a gigantic camera forever pointed at the same view.

Being open source meant that I could work on the technical side (along with lots of other people), and others who had the interest and inclination could start up companies around it.

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

these hips have never been enslaved, they go where they want to go they do what they want to do. these hips are mighty hips. these hips are magic hips

The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?