All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Adventure is worthwhile.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

While my body might say, "I'm small and vulnerable, " my hair warns, "DON'T MESS WITH ME.

Rather than being guided by images of how to be, people need to attend to how they actually are and to respect this.

I wore hot pants and cowboy boots and I thought, 'What have I gotten myself into?'

I amused myself playing with the journalists.

In my mind I'ma fighter, my heart's a lighter, my soul is the fluid. My flow sparks it right up.

I want to be like Ben Folds. Everyone loves his music, but you could be sitting next to him on a plane and never know it." "I would much rather people know my music than know my name.

Right now, we live in bad times in this country, and the fact that there are filmmakers addressing political and social issues is to me a good thing.

The people in flight from the terror behind-strange things happen to them, some bitterly cruel and some so beautiful that the faith is refired forever.

I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.

Seek to understand rather than be understood.