I find that a lot of times when family members get bronchitis or the flu or something like that, I'll kind of skate through and be really lucky and not get that sick.

If you're waiting around for something to be handed to you or win the lottery, chances are nothing is ever going to go down, you know, so you got to make it happen on your own.

You start treating your body right and your immune system is better.

The world's pretty trippy. I just like to travel around and see what's out there.

Look, one of the things that I know for sure is that none of us truly knows. That's it. It'll hit you later.

I don't know that I can say what exactly love means to me because it would be hard to put that into perspective.

Never let your fear decide your fate.

I've always found it pretty difficult to write a happy song.

Let's say I'm at a party and I don't like the feeling I'm getting, I'll just leave. Why do I have to be there?

My point is, I don't see the need to eat animals. I love animals; besides the horrible stuff that's put in meat, I actually love cuddling with animals and petting them and stuff.

I don't think we'll really know what's going on until we enter the next dimension and all that.

Life doesn't just happen to you

When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.

Failure is the foundation of success and the means by which it is achieved.

The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.

There is a lot in Adam Smith that reflects the insights of Rousseau and anticipates those of Marx.

One cannot spend forever sitting and solving the mysteries of oone's history.

I've lived in New York for a really long time.

That is my temperament. I enjoy creating systems on a grand scale, and I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable. And I enjoy crushing bastards.

I was one of those fortunate individuals who grew up in a large, passionate, demonstrative Italian family where we were taught to love as naturally as we breathed and ate giant bowls of pasta!

We need to send a clear message to gang members that violent crime will not be tolerated.