Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be.

Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you'll feel good no matter what.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

Here is my secret: I don't mind what happens.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

There's something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are.

And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.

Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.

I write every day for most of the work day, and I try to write 2,500 words per day... If I don't make it a routine and treat it like a job, I'd never get anything done.

Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.

I'm busier than a busy person. People aren't scared to play this raucous, harsh music over radio speakers, so I think it's the perfect time to get in with some real serious, heavy bands.

I have fake eye lashes on and they feel like tarantulas. But they're not real tarantulas.

I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park.

The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth.

The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in place.