I want to be one of those people, be they writers, poets, musicians, who leaves clues for the next generation. The really good people leave clues that help feed the human race. That's my aspiration.

Forgive them even if they are not sorry

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

Sometimes I've sat outside, not to tan, but as a result of that I ended up tanning slightly.

Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?

Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.

Make sure your heart is singing right until the day it stops.

The best artists are the ones that work the hardest, and if you work hard enough, you'll eventually experience the happy accidents that are art.

I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence.

He said he preferred to feel the earth sing through his feet, and that shoes stopped you from hearing the song of the earth.

Lonely world if you don’t have anyone to rule over.

That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.

Art was born as a desire, not as a demand.

We do not learn so much by our successes as we learn by failures - our own and others! Especially if we see the failures properly corrected.

It’s amazing how much you’re missing in a depressive state until you start to come out on the other side. It’s like breathing again after being underwater for far too long.

Nothing sharpens the arrow of sarcasm so keenly as the courtesy that polishes it; no reproach is like that we clothe with a smile and present with a bow.

American Stance: Everything not forbidden is permitted. Prussian Stance: Everything not permitted is forbidden.

Give according to your income lest God make your income according to your giving.

I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.