The boys that were running away from America because they didn't want to get involved with the Vietnam War had come to me. They would tell me how they felt.

It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.

The price we pay for being ourselves is worth it.

I've never felt that fear is my enemy. Fear is my friend. It offers me a chance to stay alert, keep growing, continue creating something new. If you don't take that sort of risk, you learn nothing.

A man has always wanted to lay me down but he never wanted to pick me up.

I have used all the manure that has been thrown on me as fertilizer to make me stronger.

I fall in love with myself, and I want someone to share it with me. And I want someone to share me, with me.

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.

Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.

A long leash is not freedom.

The present is the closest that you will ever get to the future.

In some remote regions of Islam it is said a woman caught unveiled by a stranger will raise her skirt to cover her face.

Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the habit of nine-tenths of the world - of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it.

The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

People who ponder too much about the subject of enlightenment don't progress very fast. It is interesting to know it's there, but you can't know what it's like until you get there.

I can cook; but not well. I figure I have six years until my children discover what their friends' mothers make for dinner.

I am a bit old-school.

I'm a lifelong Simpsons fanatic and I wanted to create my own animated show, one day.

Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin.