I think the American people, you know, they're going to want that new car smell. They want to drive something off the lot that doesn't have as much mileage as me.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

Change is never easy, but always possible.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.

If you can not grasp the consciousness-altering experience that real mastery of these disciplines proposes, of what value is your participation?

There is no value in your promises. They are as hollow as fangs and poisonous as the venom within them once I allowed them into my heart.

The boy is not governed by don't, but is led by do.

For me, dressing is always a question of principle, respect, a sense of order, not to disguise myself, even in rotten places.

Being a rock star is being a rock star, I don't need to go into the details. What would you do if you were a rock star?

You seek identity in the midst of indistinguishab le chaos, in sprawling nameless reality.

There is a madness, yes, this is true. Few mortals possess it, the willingness to step away from the protection of sanity. To walk into the wild wood of madness...

Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

Stressed souls need the reassuring rhythm of self-nurturing rituals.

The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo.