Open your eyes. This horrible mess is your life. There is no sense in waiting for it to get better. Stop putting it off and live it.

Acceptance of what is. That is the shortest path to peace with yourself.

Had she learned to feel again, only to have to feel this? Could any amount of love ever be worth the pain of losing it?

One way to disperse fear and create decision was to consider the worst possible outcome of one's actions.

Why must it be one or the other?' she countered. 'You are both a capable seaman and the son of a Bingtown Trader. Why should not I have both sets of skill?

That destiny is not reserved for a few chosen ones. Each man has a destiny. Recognizing it and fulfilling it are the purpose of a man's life.

Many great ideas are not unique. They only become unique when the men who have the wherewithal actually to implement them come together.

To sate your need without love is theft

The moment the light of your being becomes bright, darkness will melt away to reveal the brightness of your consciousness.

Religious guilt will never grow the kind of love you want in someone.

These haters are too less in number when compared to the millions who support me. I look at all those beautiful people who always stand by me. I respect them, and they equally respect me.

I like to feel like you can bite my paintings. Not to eat them, to hurt them. I like to feel like I'm painting with my teeth.

Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity.

If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.

Let him not boast who puts his armor on as he who puts it off, the battle done.

Advice: Don’t wait until someone you have issues with — especially someone you’re related to — gets shot before you work it out.

We were in an awkward position against Yugoslavia in that in order to win we needed to score more goals than they did.

Tasting is an act of pleasure and writing about that pleasure is an artistic gesture, but the only true work of art, in the end, is another person's feast.