Drug use makes you snappy, and you get very bad-tempered and have terrible hangovers.

People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don't know what really matters.

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

There's no absolutes in life - only vodka.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

A good thing never ends.

I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.

To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.

Change makers take risks and are ready to die for excellence than to give excuses and live for mediocrity.

Lewis encourages his cancer-stricken and temporarily depressed wife that uncertainty rather than hopelessness is our cross.

Imagination is by definition, a complex system.

The real blessings come without our asking or even knowing what they are.

We cannot let a minority of people hold a viewpoint that terrorizes the majority of people.

The fatal mistake is waiting for life's circumstances to be right before we begin. Simply begin with your heart, look deeply into it and trust what you feel. Practice knowing and you will know.

No two wars are identical.

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all my ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.