Pain doesn't last. And when it's gone, we have something to show for it. Growth.

Now I know what success is: living your truth, sharing it.

Decide what your truth is. Then live it.

No matter how smart we may think we are, no matter how committed we are to our truth, we can lose our way.

Ask yourself: what is it, that if I believed it down to my core, would change everything?

The act of going within, finding our truth, and then sharing it, it helps us far more than we know.

One thing I've learned: we don't stumble accidentally into an amazing life. It takes decision, a commitment to consistently work on ourselves.

If there's a definition of freedom, I think it's this: living life on your terms.

Success and failure come and go, but don't let them define you. It's who you are that matters.

The things I carry are my thoughts. That's it. They are the only weight. My thoughts determine whether I am free and light or burdened.

Peace is letting it be. Letting life flow, letting emotions flow through you.

Poetry and visions, springing as they do from an ever-present sense of mortality, might easily appear morbid to the sturdycommon sense of a burgher-class in the making.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

Back then, Billy imagined that drops of rain were unanswered prayers falling back to earth.

A Jesus who never wept could never wipe away my tears.

But you can't extend, or go beyond any point musically, without the basic fundamentals.

Law reforms in the US, ostensibly enacted to prohibit racism, have proven ineffective because they focus on bad intentions of individuals and fail to comprehend population-level conditions.

The only kind of trouble I've ever been in is when I was stealing eggs when I was little. I think I know right from wrong.

The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.

[Maigret] is more internal. I think if we made more of these I might let him out a bit.

They [international terrorists] are after us because we're a Christian nation.