Personally, I didn't think there was anything wrong with sadness. Just the opposite – hypocrisy made people happy and truth made them sad.

Time is just an illusion. What you need is to live this very moment. That is all that matters.

Stop running after the waves. Let the sea come to you.

Knowledge that takes you, not beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance.

Either grant me the bliss of the ignorant or give me the strength to bear the knowledge.

Moments are born and moments die. For new experiences to come to life, old ones need to wither away.

If you want to destroy something in this life, be it an acne, a blemish or the human soul, all you need to do is to surround it with thick walls. It will dry up inside.

Love cannot be explained, yet it explains all.

I hunt everywhere for a life worth living and a knowledge worth knowing. Having roots nowhere, I have everywhere to go.

How can you blame others for disrespecting you when you think of yourself as unworthy of respect?

Do not go with the flow. Be the flow.

Through darkness diamonds spread their richest light.

Death chose each of us - both Dark and Light - for a reason. There can't be Light without Dark or Dark without Light.

It was a voice that you felt you had to listen to—or you ignored at your peril.

Behind all the years of practice and all the hours of glory waits that inexorable terror of living without the game.

I'm not particularly pre-occupied with the husband / baby thing. Besides I have a dog.

Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.

I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.

If you want to live your whole life free from pain,you must either be a god or a corpse.

I was always more of a film guy than an athlete guy. I had an art scholarship at Western.

Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.