It's not up to us what we learn, but merely whether we learn through joy or through pain.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

Stories are the thing which shapes our kinky and wicked minds.

A piece of benevolence, a shard of good will is sometimes all that is needed to raise a truly loyal army.

It is my belief that love dies from overuse, and the heart dies from a lack of interest in life without it.

I come from a family of traders; my grandmother and my mother were very good at making money.

Any man who is a bear on the future of this country will go broke.

If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy, you have reached a very funny area.

Matches are won and lost so many times in the locker room.

There was just no fear in her.

There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.

Heltah Skeltah-meets-Portishead would be like the Brand New Heavies Hip Hop album, something like that. That's dope, word.