where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice?

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

I rise from the moist crevice of thought, I beat on the shores of her holy body, I fall from the sky in silver sheets of sadness. Rise onto me my precious sun.

To say, “I’ve been converted and that’s that, ” is to say you have decided to quit growing. If life is about anything, it is about growing. The day I quit changing and learning is the day I die.

To see persons looking with children's eyes at any ordinary scenery, is a proof that they possess the charming faculty of drawing new sensations from an old experience...

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.

It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.

I'm never the romantic lead. I'm the guy walking in on the romantic lead, going, "Oh sorry! I'll leave you guys alone."

Somehow when I express my voice, I feel that much more vulnerable. For instance, if I used the wrong word, or if I said something and somebody could take the word and misinterpret it.

The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity.'

I started college Pre-Med. That lasted about half a semester.

There are so many great songwriters that I love and respect, it's an honor to get the opportunity to sing any of their songs.