If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind.

We come from an inconceivable nothingness. We stay a while in something which seems equally inconceivable, only to vanish again into the inconceivable nothingness.

Each new generation asks – What is the meaning of life? A more fertile way of putting the question would be – Why does man need a meaning to life?

To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house.

The more a human being in his worldview approaches the goal, the hegemony of love in a moral universe, the more has he become slipshod in the light of intellectual honesty.

As long as humankind recklessly proceeds in the fateful delusion of being biologically fated for triumph, nothing essential will change.

Know yourselves- be infertile and let the earth be silent after ye.

For me, a desert island is no tragedy, neither is a deserted planet.

A coin is turned around before it is handed to the beggar, yet a child is unflinchingly tossed into cosmic bruteness.

The seed of a metaphysical or religious defeat is in us all. For the honest questioner, however, who doesn't seek refuge in some faith or fantasy, there will never be an answer.

Jesus must have been a psychopath

The world will not get better, only we get and grow better.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions

Once you've been first, it cannot be done again. Not by you, not by anyone else.

The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.

I don't cuss in songs. It's too easy.

I cant control everything, and I dont need to

There is no way to kill a man's righteousness but by his own consent.

You can't spell 'developer' without 'devel.'

I want to show people who I really am, especially aspiring basketball players who want to be at this level. That's what I'm about.

I used to take amphetamines until I realized that amphetamines didn't go with being a good singer.