I think standardization is really the first step to something being commodified.

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away.

If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.

... rejoicing in a peace which brings only an increase of anxiety, ...

It is only by loving others that we can learn to live

Everyone wants to leave an extraordinary life.

Life, liberty and the pursuit of gratitude, now that would’ve worked. They would have been readily led to contentment, which would’ve then better lead them on to happiness.

I'm a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just because it's valuable.

I wanted to be a musical theatre actress - I wanted to play Sally Bowles, forever and ever always.

Every person must stand up and be accountable, but be responsible for their actions.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.

I hate the ballplayer who says, 'I did everything I could have possibly done.' Because if you didn't win it all, you obviously didn't do everything you could have done.