I took piano lessons when I was like 5 or 6 but that was a long time ago. I stopped when I was 13.

I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings.

I think that when you don't see the boundaries, you cross them without even knowing they exist in the first place.

I was raised with the idea of beauty in a different way. To me, it is something that really comes out of you and surrounds you.

I think in friendship, you want to be there for your friend, and sometimes you just don't know what to do or the relationship you have with them is not clear enough for you to know what to do.

You cannot escape what you have to deal with inside yourself. It will never bring good things. It will only bring madness.

I think that emotion and good stories can cross the times.

Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered.

I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that.

If I wake up during a dream I can usually go back to sleep and finish the story.

I think you're where you have to be and I'm not a person who wants to control things too much because I love surprises.

A life which has never been laid open in penitence and faith before God has little permanence in eternity.

It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous.

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.

Ninety-nine percent of all work on self is attitudinal.

Certainly he who can digest a second or third fluxion need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity.

My view of the afterlife is that it's made of different levels, depending on how spiritual a life we live.

I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts.

Colonialists stole not only the lands of African people and renamed them. They stole also their knowledge, so that they would know nothing about themselves

Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.

I'm jackin' off reading Playboy on a hot afternoon, I'm a three time loser.