Suffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater.

...And in freedom, most people find sin.

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

A taste so profound and complex that it can't even be compared to other tastes, only to emotions. Cheesy waffles, I was thinking, tastes like love without the fear of love's dissolution.

My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.

Haylee shook her head as soon as they were gone. “Christ, how can our family be mankind’s best hope?

The single greatest advantage anyone can take into any battle is hope.

The evidence, so far at least and laws of Nature aside, does not require a Designer. Maybe there is one hiding, maddeningly unwilling to be revealed.

Before every shot, I go to the movies

When ideas become gods, consciousness of harmony becomes devotion, humility, and hope.

Never destroy without thought your enemy's pretences; they are usually your best weapon against him.

My life is not separate from my music, you know? It's not like a day job that I leave and go home. It's who I am as a person and how I am trying to grow, come closer to God, be a better person.

For it is in letting go of the past that you reclaim your power. Step through the gateway now.

You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for.

Harmony between two individuals is never granted-it has to be conquered indefinitely.