Fear travels fast. Love travels a little more slowly. Rationale takes a little more consideration.

By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.

As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion

You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you.

I get fixated when I'm bleeding -- I can see why they went in for blood-letting in the medieval times because it makes you feel a bit better. When I cut myself, the drama of it calms me down.

The bad-boy label is just an assumption.

The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have.

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might because they aren't looking in the right direction for a solution. They aren't looking within.

I thought I was promiscuous, but it turns out I was just thorough.

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with.

The sophisticated concern about art sinks before a spontaneous love of reality, and I thank the photograph for being so transparent a vehicle for things.

Going from Giraud to Moebius, I twisted the strip; changed dimensions. I was the same and yet someone else. Moebius is the result of my duality.

We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do.

Never underestimate the importance of self-belief to transform your own organization, to reassure nervous clients, and to change the future of our business.

A lot of artists talk about getting out of their comfort zones and being the most proud of their newest album. But it is true for me. I rethought a lot of what I do.

Often President Obama's worst critics are Senator Obama and candidate Obama.

Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes.