I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

Change is a friend to a life with a vision, but an enemy to an aimless person.

I wondered how many other things had flown past me into death. Perhaps many. Perhaps I was flying past them, like the grim reaper, signaling the end. This would explain so much.

Maybe you should've let God do the planning, rather than doing it yourself.

To save and maintain the beauty of nature

Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.

Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.

There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

Find a pile of gold and sit on it.

Sometimes we push ourselves. We take a workout and we use it as a way to crack open our shell, let the pain rush in and push out the stagnant wounds of the heart. Sometimes a workout sets you free.