People who say the system works work for the system.

By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.

As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion

You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you.

I get fixated when I'm bleeding -- I can see why they went in for blood-letting in the medieval times because it makes you feel a bit better. When I cut myself, the drama of it calms me down.

The bad-boy label is just an assumption.

The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have.

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might because they aren't looking in the right direction for a solution. They aren't looking within.

I thought I was promiscuous, but it turns out I was just thorough.

Used every man according to his capacity.

Beauty is a heart with wings.

You have the ability to control your thoughts.

Not only then has each man his individual relation to God but each man has his peculiar relation to God.

Only useless things are indispensable.

Life without oil, in fact, would be so different that it is frightening to contemplate. We are addicted, and it is no comfortable addiction.

As a performer, I could be like, "I don't want to leave that in there." But as a producer, I have to leave it in there.

To eat is human, to digest, divine

When it seems that something can't be done, start it, and see if the rest of it can be done.

As long as you want to please everyone, you won't please anyone.