I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.

A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.

This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality. Embrace this moment, remember: we are eternal all this pain is an illusion.

Life is too short not to create something with every breath we draw.

People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to Wal-Mart, so be it.

Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability To lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here

Desert, in generally, is a very good place to find yourself. Or lose yourself.

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.

The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug.

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

In the class that I teach at one University, I stress that my one-word definition of politics is money. You can't name a subject matter that money doesn't touch.

I've always been - you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I'm just being who God made me to be.

The Atlantic Ocean was something then.

I was a drummer, and I did a little singing too.

My mind’s screaming went unvoiced. Logic grabbed the panic and wrestled it to the ground.

There's nothing that says you can't change." "Not even if it changes everything else?" I shook my head. "Not even then.

The best way to look at aging is to see it as an opportunity to leave what didn't work behind and step boldly into a brand new future.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

A few years back, this guy [Barack Obama] would be serving us coffee.