I’ve already lived through the worst time of my life. So I know that whatever happens to me from now on, nothing will ever be as bad as it was back then. That makes me happy.

The stupid thing about anger is how people hurt you and then you let them keep hurting you by being angry about how they originally hurt you. It’s a vicious cycle.

No one can be everything you want them to be.

I'd rather be weird and happy than normal and miserable.

This body is yours. It is your home. The keeper of your soul. The resting place of your spirit. No one can ever take that away.

It’s unbelievable how you can affect someone else so deeply and never know.

If you see someone being bullied, make it stop. Why is that so hard for us to do?

My thing is that I'm in love with love. Actually, I'm in love with the possibility of true love. Which could be considered a major problem.

Sometimes in the midst of all your boy drama, you just need a cupcake.

Because if you take a risk, you just might find what you're looking for.

I want revenge, but I don't want to screw up my karma.

There is no such thing as tough love. Love is kind, love is compassionate, love is tender.

The United States is democratic because its people live in conformity. It is the perfect country for mice.

August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.

Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth.

Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, "men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned"

A little wine sometimes, that's all. Spirits (are) bad. Alcohol wrong. Herb does grow.

Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears the traces if not the stigmata of its ancestry.

Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.

The nerves are good because that keeps you from relaxing too much and getting caught off guard.

Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.