Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Whenever negativity makes us drip, Inspiration creates a flip from Negative to Positive.

It was the end for something. It was the beginning for another. But in reality it just fell in the middle. In that confusing moment of time between my birth and my death.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Your friends will determine the quality and direction of your life.

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

I was living a complete lie. But unfortunately, guilt doesn't make you stop.

I think it's very hard to reconcile oneself to the notion that it may not matter what you think if you still want to write.

People have a deep need to be legislators, and the idea of autonomy has become very precious.

What you put out is what you get back, and the reason so many are so short of money is that they put little or nothing out

I live in Los Angeles and I had been drinking one night, so I was on the walk of fame and I saw Tony Danza's star and I started urinating on it. Just yelling out, 'Who's the boss now?'