In high school, I once sang 'Let's Get It On' and 'Brown Sugar' with a band that included my English teacher and my math teacher.

The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.

The more you are positive and say: "I want to have a good life." The more you build that reality for yourself; by creating the life that you want.

I believe in luck and fate and I believe in karma, that the energy you put out in the world comes back to meet you.

It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.

I think it's a very healthy thing to learn from what's happened in the past. But only if you look at what happened and think, 'How could I have dealt with that differently?' Then let it go.

I do like dating cynics - they tend to be incredibly funny.

Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.

I'm more cerebral than I want to be.

One thing that I do find really sexy is a girl who's good at crossword puzzles.

My nipples could cut glass.

Study to learn, do not study to pass".

Your mind will serve you better than any trinket under the suns...It is a weapon...and like any weapon, you need practice to be any good at wielding it.

You can't sail towards your future if you're still anchored in the past.

Let your actions sing the best melody of life so that everyone can joyfully listen to it.

Wisdom isn't built on experience

too much explanation can take the pleasure out of any poetry.(Preface, vii)

No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.

I swore that I would never say I miss you more everyday but, some things are better left unsaid.

How you see the world depends on how you look.

Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.