The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. The farther you run, the more God wants you back.

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away.

If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

Leaders are hard workers. They never expect more out of the people around them than they are willing to give themselves.

Is that the secret meaning of the word story, do you think: a storing place of memories?

If we want to be endowed with rights – real human rights, we have to act with responsibility. We must not be comfortable with rights. We must be comfortable with responsibility.

Keep working even when no one is watching.

Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.

Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.

These days I love to take in the sunset because every time I do so I remember how lucky I am to be alive. That's a great relationship to have with the setting sun.

SM is an art. Doing it well requires more than a bag full of expensive whips and exotic electrical toys, a closet full of fetish clothes, or a basement filled with bondage furniture.

Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.