People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

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.

In suffering, we build our strength for ultimate success.

The grandeur that was Rome.

The worst thing you can do to a kid is tell them that their dreams are invalid.

A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.

As long as the wrong feels right - it's like I'm in flight.

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.

I didn't come after Elvis and Dylan, I've been around always. But if I see or meet a great artist, I love 'em.

I am an artist, not a dressmaker.

The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.

When we tell people to do their jobs, we get workers. When we trust people to get the job done, we get leaders.