But, you know, you can't be a star at home.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

My soul is not contained within the limits of my body; my body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul.

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine.

Flowers don't worry about how they're going to bloom. They just open up & turn toward the light & that makes them beautiful.

I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.

Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

Everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart, and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart.

Pursuit of truth, not success, is the ultimate purpose of an illuminated life.

Money holds terrible power when it is loved

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.

When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.

I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park.

If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.

...what threatens us today in the world of computers and other invasions of privacy is not a national ID card but a number of other things.

I happen to know people who are followers of Christ in other religions.

I'm pathetic when it comes to the Internet and getting stuff done.

Ironic, isn't it, what religion does to people?" "I guess it's more ironic what people do to religion.