I always have kind of a few books going at the same time.

Every morning I wake up with a purpose and a smirk

You're using your headphones to drown out your mind

I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things.

I'm the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved

The piano is not firewood -- yet.

So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.

I've got a perfect body, 'cause my eyelashes catch my sweat

Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.

I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.

I don't really make records chronologically.

The essential war within, and the cause of suffering, begins with the presumption that yearning, impulse and curiosity, desire and question, exist so as to end them. To attain, to acquire, to answer.

Meditation is to leave the noise and to meet with the silence.

I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.

Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.

If you want to have more, you must become more.

Spirituality, a defended person has no room for love or compassion-he is too busy defending himself.

Sometimes I have to remind myself, that on my worst day I live like somebody on their greatest

But winter lingering chills the lap of May.

Christianity and democracy are inevitably enemies.

What we do to others will come back to us.