We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.

Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

Once asked what action he would recommend if a person were to feel a nervous breakdown coming on: Lock up your house, go across the railroad tracks, and find someone in need and do something for him.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

What's done to children, they will do to society.

Our lives are shaped by those who love us as well as those who refuse to love us.

Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken.

Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.

Courage is often associated with aggression, but instead should be seen as a willingness to act from the heart.

Zac Efron is like a brother who's just goofy and crazy. He plays a lot of practical jokes.

We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it.

There's only one way for a professional soldier to die. That's from the last bullet of the last battle of the last war.

Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.

If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less.

I thought I knew Elton John, but then it was like, "Woah, Elton's a pimp! He's really amazing." And since Billy and Elton are homies, I'm finally getting it - the two piano boys.

I keep saying I'm going to cut back on styling, but it's hard to give up.

Jealousy is the fire of envy that seeks to destroy another's beauty, rather than to create its own.

The passive receiving of Christ is the process by which a spiritual principle of grace is generated in the will of man.