By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.

As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion

You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you.

I get fixated when I'm bleeding -- I can see why they went in for blood-letting in the medieval times because it makes you feel a bit better. When I cut myself, the drama of it calms me down.

The bad-boy label is just an assumption.

The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have.

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might because they aren't looking in the right direction for a solution. They aren't looking within.

I thought I was promiscuous, but it turns out I was just thorough.

I'm not better than you; I'm just different than you in a way that's better.

May the bridges I burn light the way

He is indeed the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

Education is the vaccine for violence.

I don't have credibility, I'm a comedian. I'm not Ed Murrow up on the roof in a London fog reporting on the blitz.

To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms their hearts.

our lives change in two ways :through the people we meet and the books we read

All energy flows according to the whims of the great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him.

It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.

The only good Rook is a working Rook!

Her name's Prim. She's just twelve. And I love her more than anything.