My friends, it is wise to nourish the soul, otherwise you will breed dragons and devils in your heart.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The person with the least worry over the compromises he must make is, of course, the person who doesn't compromise.

Why, God? You made man in your own image. Why then do so many lack good sense? And why is that we are so easily drawn to hate and kill each other? Why, God?

But I always kind of knew in the back of my head that I could come back and do Stone Sour.

I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.

And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams-- In what ethereal dances, By what eternal streams!

You have to hold yourself accountable for your actions, and that's how we're going to protect the Earth.

I don't think I'd ever reject anyone.

Many pains are imaginary, but all joys are real.

Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things.

The official strategy is defensive pessimism, always.