Eventually, I think you find a spiritual and emotional connection with someone, and I think it unifies you with everyone else. I think if you love one person, it makes you love everyone.

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 don't mind if my future is long or short, as long as I'm doing the right thing. And as long as I behave for other people.

The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.

When you die at 72, no matter what you die of, it's natural causes. Even if you get hit by a truck, it's natural causes. 'Cause if you was younger, you'd have got out the way!

Most of what I know about writing I've learned through running every day.

Circumstances do not make you what you are, they reveal what you are.

I'm an old-fashioned person and I happen to believe in traditional marriage.

As you get older, you shouldn't waste time drinking bad wine.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Write down what you feel guilty about. Now, with the biggest, reddest marker you can find, cross it out-delete it.

I didn't just want to be the one who was always looking around at the weird family members. I wanted to make my mistakes.