It does not matter what sixty-six percent of people do in any particular situation. All that matters is what you do.

Building up a weakness just makes you less disabled. Building a strength can take you to the top of the world.

I don't really understsand why it's considered normal to stare at someone's eyeballs

Simply making myself aware of others has remarkably improved my social life. People accept me much faster now that I ignore them less.

I am sure antidepressants, drugs, and liquor have their place. But so far, that place is in others, not me.

There are plenty of people in the world whose lives are governed by rote and routine. Such people will never be happy dealing with me, because I don't conform.

And my experience in the music scene had shown me that there were places for places in the world where misfits were welcome.

Unlike some older brothers, I never set him on fire, or cut off an arm or leg, or drowned him in the tub.

This is a f***ing mess," I said tactfully.

As we become the light, the light is lifted in every room that we enter.

The true meaning of your life doesn't lie in your experiences, but in your frequent positive interpretations of your past and present.

Life is all about choices. Choices define us, sculpt us. What will your choices say about you?

The first domesticated animal was the scapegoat.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

We are unique. Chimpanzees are unique. Dogs are unique. But we humans are just not as different as we used to think.

I was responding to one thing for the woman I knew, and there's another thing for what did she give, right. She [Nina Simone] was a great teacher.

If God exists, He is there, in the small, cast-off pieces, rough and random and no two alike.

The War on Terror is one of the most critical national security efforts in our history.