A good man fights for himself. A great man fights for everyone else

The fact that you are even here, alive, on this planet is a mathematical miracle, and you should not spend the time that you have being busy being miserable.

Don't live like there's no tomorrow, that's stupid. But live your life like it's a story that you would want to tell someone else. A little fun, a little exciting, a little sexy, and always off key.

Real beauty comes from confidence and being who you are, not aspiring to look or be someone else.

If we as people view everone who's not a part of our group as the monster, and we treat them like the monster - they either become the monster, or we're actually the monster.

I want you, " she said."I told you so, " he said.

When we direct a lot of hostile energy toward the inner critic, we enter into a losing battle.

...Changelessness is decay.""A paradox. There is no decay without a change for the worse.""Changelessness is a change for the worse...

Zookeeper foible #1: Tendency to not equate fur and scale with fracture and scar.

Some people wear their smile like a disguise. Those people who smile a lot, watch their eyes. I know 'cause I'm like that a lot. You think everything's ok, and it is . . . 'till it's not.

You know, 97 percent of the time, if you come into a hospital, everything goes well. But three percent of the time, we have major complications.

There is a time to separate from our mother. But unless we are ready to separate-unless we are ready to leave her and be left-anything is better than separation.

The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment.

I believe such passion-even passion born of fear and anxiety-is far better than a life of banality.

It's true that Eastern philosophy and religion were not unknown to me as a child, since my father has explored much in that area, and written books more or less in that area, too.