Love yourself. That kind of love can get you through anything.

Promise me this. When you find yourself in need of inspiration, bypass the roses that will clamor aimlessly for attention. And focus on the souls who have actually 'lived' among the thorns.

If you only knew how many sentences I have withheld in hopes that I will be allowed to speak them into your heart one day.

How is it that hearts hold on to memories with the strength of hope and possibilities.

I am often asked what made me the way I am. And my answer is always this: I've always been me. It just took awhile to find me under all the rubble.

How to raise sons who respect women:Never give them the opportunity to see you disrespect yourself.

If everyone only gave a fraction of the compassion their hearts are capable of giving... how much suffering could we alleviate in this world?

I used to worry about tomorrow, but that was before I survived yesterday. Now it's one breath at a time.

Show me a little bit of your soul under all those pretty words you spill, and I promise you I will drink every last drop.

And I find myself asking again and again.... What was it about such a beautiful man, who was able to leave such ugly scars?

Every word on every page, represents a love that captured this heart... fully, and never set it free.

Art is freedom. Being able to bend things most people see as a straight line.

You should be aiming to illuminate your indoor daytime environment with natural outdoor light, not electrical lighting products.

We choose to remain angry. Someone else may have initiated the anger but we choose whether we remain in this state or not.

Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time.

When I began writing, it was a cosmic thing: Inspiration! Wham! Short spurts of time when I felt out of touch with reality, temporarily insane and the result: a song!

The film from the beginning is not the real world; it's an imaginary world. And this imaginary world is both inside and outside the normal world.

Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.

Genius may be for an hour or a thousand years; its indispensable quality is continuity with the life-push.

I'm a pretty loyal guy with friends and family, I've had the same friends for a long time.

A birthday wish granted 23 years late is still a birthday wish granted.