Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.

I don't care if you hate me or love me, as long as I make you think.

With every breath, I'm deeper in you.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

I always acted like a star long before I was one.

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.

Sometimes you just have to go and make a mess of things to get people to pay attention.

Love that hurts is better than hate that tickles.

You are a sweet ocean of love. Invite everyone to come to your shore to feel the joy of life.

Iraq can emerge as a beacon of hope and democracy in the Middle East, and the world, with our help.

I fell in love with beauty a long, long time ago, but what I wanted was to create beauty - not to be blinded by it.

To denounce does not free the self from what it hates, any more than ignoring the past shuts off its influence.

I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But thankfully my dad had a collection of Cat Stevens albums while my mom was listening to jazz.

[ Negro leaders] never let the white man know exactly what black people are thinking.

Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.

Love is ev­erything. Love is God. Live in love.

I think I might get laid more...by my dad.