As a performer, I'm very, very confident in what I do.

By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.

As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion

You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you.

I get fixated when I'm bleeding -- I can see why they went in for blood-letting in the medieval times because it makes you feel a bit better. When I cut myself, the drama of it calms me down.

The bad-boy label is just an assumption.

The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have.

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might because they aren't looking in the right direction for a solution. They aren't looking within.

I thought I was promiscuous, but it turns out I was just thorough.

Le passé et le présent sont deux statues incomplètes: l'une a été retirée toute mutilée du débris des âges, l'autre n'a pas encore reçu sa perfection de l'avenir.

I wake up thinking: What am I reading? What will I read next? I'm terrified that I'll run out, that I will read through all I want to, and be forced to learn wildflowers at last, to keep awake.

If you love love, then love loves you too

There is value in being free and spontaneous but the greatest power comes from seeing and using what results from that freedom.

Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground

I'm an extremely vulnerable person. Vulnerability and emotion are very closely linked.

Sometimes parents limit the experiences their kids will have, saying they are going to fail; they can't ride a bike or do sports.

The great military leaders of the past have gone, their empires have crumbled and burned to ashes. But the empire of Jesus, built solidly and majestically on the foundation of love, is still growing.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.