A pretty face can capture my attention but only a beautiful mind can hold it.

The purpose of life is a life with a purpose. So I’d rather die for a cause, than live a life that is worthless.

Tell 'em the truth and they call you a traitor, Talk to 'em honestly and they call you a hater.

I'd rather be proud of what I am, rather than desperatly try to be something I'm really not; just to fit in.

Hell is not a place you go if you're not a Christian, it's the failure of your life's greatest ambition.

So when the devil wants to dance with you, you better say never, Because the dance with the devil might last you forever.

Ignorance is venomous and it murders the soul, spreading like a virus, running rampant, out of control.

Your mind is your weapon. Load your weapon.

Those people who kill women, children, and defenseless civilians are about as Muslim as mass murderer Christopher Columbus was a Christian.

If you don't have self-respect, if you don't have dignity, if you don't have some true knowledge of self and who you are, and where you're coming from, then you're absolutely lost.

You can make the future, but it starts with leaving the past.

Everything, I thought, everything keeps changing. Changing shape, changing colour, changing sound.

I look around the room and can't help but think about how it is the little things we look back on in life. I wonder how often people think that they should pay more attention to them.

What pillow can one have like a good conscience?

It doesn't have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see.

I'm now comfortable playing a lot of the old songs, and I've gotten out a lot of the old equipment.

If you live for fame, men may turn against you.

Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence.

Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and then, and find out what we feel about familiar scenes and recurring faces this time around.

Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.

In my opinion, character is the most important determinant of a person's success, achievement and ability to handle adversity.