Cults make people sing so hard for so long - because it over-oxygenates the blood and sets them up to faint.

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.

Sometimes I wonder why I exist with all my vast knowledge, while others exist longer with their clichés.

Tell me, Choi Yoori...are your lips as soft as they look?

Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.

The most important relationship is the mind's relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate - and, really, the only - relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

Fly-fishing is a magic way to recapture the rapture of solitude without the pangs of loneliness.

Ask because you want to know. Listen because you want to grow.

Laughter is essential to our equilibrium, to our well-being, to our aliveness. If we're not well, laughter helps us get well. If we are well, laughter helps us stay that way.

We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not.

The Chinese, whom it might be well to disparage less and imitate more, seem almost the only people among whom learning and merit have the ascendency, and wealth is not the standard of estimation.