All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away.

If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

I'm pretty normal in some ways. In some ways I'm completely extraordinary, and in other ways I'm completely weird and eccentric.

The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.

There are no dead ends. There is always a way out. What you learn in one failure you utilize in your next success.

It was funny to be an emcee, because you're so at the mercy of the club. You can show up for the weekend hoping to get the $400 - and get fired. I had to prank whoever they told me to prank.

The criticism of Religion is the beginning of all criticism

Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.

I've tried and I can't. The thought of it twists me in a knot.

But perhaps the best part of all was that I, Sydney Katherine Sage, guilty of constantly analyzing the world around me, well, I stopped thinking.

It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.

I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.