We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

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

Catch from the board of beauty/ Such careless crumbs as fall.

There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.

We cannot ignore our pain and feel compassion for it at the same time.

From what I've heard, Paris did a little bit more prep work as far as making bike lanes and all of that stuff. They really did it properly, which New York is getting to little by little.

Theosophy blesses the world; Theology is its curse.

Oh, the self-importance of fading stars. Never mind, they will be black holes one day.

Discipline yourself, and others won't need to.

People are pretty respectful for the most part.

I'm just not a private person. It's not like I do things because I want things to be public; it's just that's my way of expressing myself, and I happen to be very famous.

You ever laughed so hard nobody in the world could hurt you for a minute, no matter what they tried to do to you?