If love is something you cherish, it is hard to glean much joy from death, even in one's enemies.

By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.

As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion

You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you.

I get fixated when I'm bleeding -- I can see why they went in for blood-letting in the medieval times because it makes you feel a bit better. When I cut myself, the drama of it calms me down.

The bad-boy label is just an assumption.

The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have.

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might because they aren't looking in the right direction for a solution. They aren't looking within.

I thought I was promiscuous, but it turns out I was just thorough.

A woman could be as beautiful as she felt herself to be.

The five senses offer us five different ways of shutting out reality. What is intuition and what does it perceive?

Cuba changed you. I changed you. And you are changing me.

I've eaten weird things through the course of my life. I've eaten wild game, I've eaten possum - possum's no good.

Real talent doesn't always win championships, like real music doesn't always win Grammys.

Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty.

If you make too many things too public, then you end up living your life before the court of public opinion.

You control the doorway to your mind.

I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.

Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ.