For I have trained myself and am training myself always to be able to dance lightly in the service of thought

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.

I liked all of my science classes from biology to chemistry. I thought dissecting was one of the most interesting parts of it.

The future is ours to win. But to get there we can't just stand still.

I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.

My friends know that I have a silly sense of humour and I can be a little vulgar at times - but just with people that I am close to.

Spend a day talking only in rhyme.

My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band and was a bit nerdy.

There were some things I was going and doing in Europe a little bit. Some festivals that brought me over. That was good. Some touring I did over there. But there was nothing major [from 22 to 29].

Being blond is definitely a different state of mind. I can't really put my finger on it, but the artifice of being blond has some incredible sort of sexual connotation.

You have to promise you won't fall in love with me.

Money comes and goes. When you pass away it's about what you've done to make this world a better place.