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.

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.

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

I'm not better than you; I'm just different than you in a way that's better.

Never forget a man who weathered and rescued you from the storm just because you can see the shores.

Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

Our intention creates our reality.

The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.

We are part of the earth and it is part of us ... What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth.

When anything is wrong with your child, your first instinct is to make it better.

The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do.

Names come and names go.

I saved a girl from being attacked last night. I controlled myself.