Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

There are things known and things unknown and in between are The Doors.

Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

Give me songs to sing and emerald dreams to dream and I'll give you love unfolding.

Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal

Let us not talk about problems. Let us think and talk about solutions.

Rain is disagreeable, but snow is as much part of the mountain as are sunshine and clear skies.

Can miles truly separate you from friends. ... If you want to be with someone you love aren't you already there?

Being poor is a state of mind, not a condition.

If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion.

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

65% of people say that cheating on your income tax is worse than cheating on your spouse. The other 35% were women.

This is *our* Universe, our museum of wonder and beauty, our cathedral.

I'm hoping there's an afterlife. As you get older, you hope even more fervently.

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself.