Every bit of pain can be a blessing if we choose to listen to its message.

Once trust is built, distance cannot kill it. Time and space alone cannot destroy authentic connection.

The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.

To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do.

A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.

Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.

If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.

The important thing is for me to feel love towards my fellow human beings—and sometimes, that has to be at a distance.

Self-love is essential. Until you can learn how to feel loved in an empty room, you will not feel loved for very long in any other room.

There is no quick fix-all procedure to heal your insecurities. Like any relationship, the relationship with yourself must be built and re-built one kind, loving conversation at a time.

Have the courage to love yourself like you always wished someone would.

I've known you forever, and you are only just remembering me.

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

The day Obama got elected, the gangsta became less relevant.

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.

Within chaos lies opportunity.

Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.

If you #‎ love love, look for yourself.

I've never done a box set, and Eddie's full of it if he says otherwise.