Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away.

If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

Random, meaningless groups can adopt an us-versus-them mentality.

Some people say I was very brave, but I really just didn't know any better. All I had was my originality.

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.

All conflict is about difference; whether the difference is race religion, or nationality.

The corporate income tax, in particular, is a tax that puts American corporations at a disadvantage.

Get out of your comfort zone and bring comfort to others.

Kids hate anyone who is different.

I have heard, as everybody else has, of a spirit's haunting a house ; but I have had my own personal experience of a house's haunting a spirit.

I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses.