Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

Once asked what action he would recommend if a person were to feel a nervous breakdown coming on: Lock up your house, go across the railroad tracks, and find someone in need and do something for him.

What's done to children, they will do to society.

Our lives are shaped by those who love us as well as those who refuse to love us.

Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken.

Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.

Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons, but one out of one.

A band is like a marriage, and if you're in a marriage with someone, and you lose yourself in that marriage, the relationship is over, really.

Some of my stuff, I realize is just rage.

I'm a comedian, and I decided I wanted to be a comedian when I was eight years old watching old Saturday Night Live episodes. I never decided to be a rapper because I'm not a rapper.

Put on some armor. Just remember what's armor and what's you, so when it's time to take it off, you can.

Folks always look good in their coffins.

Change is not progress.

Every blue-stocking will remain a spinster as long as there are sensible men on the earth. [Fr., Toute fille lettree restera fille toute sa vie, quand il n'y aura que des hommes senses sur la terre.]

Friendship is like love at its best; not blind but sympathetically all-seeing; a support which does not wait for understanding; an act of faith which does not need, but always has, reason.

I had been looking for a New York apartment, but I said, Why not give LA a go?

Only meditation, only silence, only transcending beyond your mind is going to give you contentment and fulfillment.