Everything is eternal Nothingness does not exist No thing has ever become nothing And nothing has never become something What is has always been and will always be

Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul

Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into

What's gone will never come back, but it exists when you think of it.

I still love with all my heart anything that I have ever loved in my life.

That's what I spend most of my time doing, breathing a lot. I like air.

When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.

Even if my songs are a bit low-spirited, they make me happy. I become happy when I hear sad songs. When you sing about sad things in a beautiful way, the atmosphere turns upside down

Music is my friend, no matter where I go.

The imagination is the most real world that we know because we each know it first hand.

In the Chili Peppers I'm a part of that world in a pretty big world and that's just the way it is.

...it's only on a black day that you begin to have friends.

...writers, like priests, should have compassion...and a sensitivity to pain...

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important.

I am looking forward enormously to getting back to the sea again, where the overstimulated psyche can recover in the presence of that infinite peace and spaciousness.

Everyone is introduced to the Peter Pan story when they're very young. This story is part of everyone's life.

I am going to renegotiate NAFTA. And if I can't make a great deal - then we're going to terminate NAFTA and we're going to create new deals.

Climbing the economic ladder has been very hard for me; I still feel a great deal of guilt towards those I left behind.

My so-called failures have been some of my greatest learning tools. I just make sure to fail up.

Never say never - you don't know what's going to happen in the future.

Your library teacher would say, "What happens to a generation that doesn't read the Classics?" Me, I'm not your library teacher. But I have some of the same questions and concerns, you know?