Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.

Intellect is not wisdom.

Reality does not go away when it is ignored.

Nothing is easier than to find some individuals—in any group—who share a given writer’s opinion, and to quote such individuals as if their views were typical.

The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses.

Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you.

Happiness is something that you can definitely achieve. At first, it will just come for a moment or two. Then it will come for longer periods of time. Eventually you will be happy all of the time.

9/11 woke us up, a nuclear 9/11 could shut us down.

I guess it would be if I wanted to, just lay back and predominantly write songs when I can't go on a stage anymore.

An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.

When a popular phenomenon reaches the cover of 'Time,' it is already out of fashion.

No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay.

Western civilisation came to this country in 1788 and I'm proud of that...

Instead of physical objects, (in order to have faith in myself) I have my personal mottos/charms to keep myself motivated and then I smack my chest.