Everyone makes mistakes and everyone deserves a second chance.

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.

Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

Walls turned sideways are bridges.

Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.

We must always attempt to lift as we climb

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

You're the devil, you know that, right?" His smile grew and became just a bit wicked. "You know it, sweetheart.

Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity.

Be offended by everything or be offended by nothing.

Pete and Repeat are in a boat, Pete jumps out who's left in the boat?

I guess nothing puts a damper on a one-night stand as much as your friend pointing out all the opportunities where you might have been killed.

Bowie's obviously my biggest influence.

I can't deal with a lot of spice but I have to eat it. I pay the price - I'm on medication for heartburn, so that's how I deal with it.

The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.

Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.