Spend time cultivating your deepest desires, no matter how impractical or impossible they seem. It's perfectly OK to want the impossible. It's not OK to pretend that your desires don't matter.

Hard work is painful when life is devoid of purpose. But when you live for something greater than yourself and the gratification of your own ego, then hard work becomes a labor of love.

If you don’t take the time to get really clear about exactly what it is you’re trying to accomplish, then you’re forever doomed to spend your life achieving the goals of those who do.

When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn't an option. It's a necessity.

Fear is not your enemy. It is a compass pointing you to the areas where you need to grow.

Thoughts are like seeds. If you want different results in life, you have to figure out which thoughts are capable of growing those results and which aren’t.

If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.

The most intelligent thing you can possibly do with your life is to grow.

Passion and purpose go hand in hand. When you discover your purpose, you will normally find it's something you're tremendously passionate about.

When you reach the point of becoming independent of external events, you’re truly free.

If you want to achieve some really big and interesting goals, you have to learn to fall in love with hard work.

The world truly is my oyster, the difficulty is... I haven't discovered the ALL of the tools to shuck it yet.

To my fellow writers' I say, 'Write. Build an imaginary world like nobody's watching.

Morality is a easy horse to ride when all the horses are just black and white.

If you care for the quality of life in our American democracy, then you have to be for censorship.

According to Nietzche," said a sharp new voice, making them all jump, "philosophy is the biography of the philosopher.

I have always been involved in issue-based politics, not party politics - I was never really originally drawn to party politics.

One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you're just beginning to read and comprehend dies.

if they were meant to be together they would find a way to do it.

Raydiation is more mature, reveals more about me personally and focuses on singing and songs that people can relate to.

Help and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.