Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather sympathy we learn to feel for the pain of others.

There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken.

What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.

The saddest thing that can happen to a person is to find out their memories are lies.

The most wonderful thing in life is to do something for a child because they're children for such a short time. We can't allow ourselves to let them live a miserable childhood.

I don't believe in anything, only in myself, but I respect all people who believe in something.

When I was 15, all I knew was that I had to be somebody and that I could be somebody. So I exploited the only thing I knew, which was singing and songwriting.

Art itself is female - it is full of graciousness, cadence, color, rhythm. It's full of love and grace.

Adulthood brings with it a pernicious illusion of control.

I have a tendency to trust translators, mainly because nobody does it for the money.

...the nostalgia for things that weren't yet lost.

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.

You're being parental', I said. 'Go find that squid'.

I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

To remember the other world in this world is to live in your true inheritance.

Obamacare is collapsing... imploding Obamacare disaster.

Beware of long arguments and long beards.

We are trying to persuade all the Iraqi opposition to come breathe freedom in Iraq and use liberated Kurdistan as a base for our common struggle.

It's a success story here in Michigan. We have hiring going on. We have new industries going on.

Get a grip, get a life, and get over it.

People at large are becoming more aware that there is much more to reality and to themselves than what meets the eye.