Really you don't need more information. If you've lived twenty years, you probably have enough material for the rest of your life

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.

Handwriting is more connected to the movement of the heart.

We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.

I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.

This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.

Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.

It is odd that we never question the feasibility of a football team practicing long hours for one game; yet in writing we rarely give ourselves the space for practice.

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.

Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.

There are no absolutes, and your way is neither the only way nor the right way.

Remember that greed includes greed for being not greedy.

If you’re in a relationship and find yourself constantly using “we” instead of “I” - stop. You are more than your relationship.

Where there is darkness, let me be the light. Where there is suffering, let me be kind and compassionate.

I don't remember half of the new bands, though - and I think that's kind of where we're going. It's turning into just a big derby of songs. May the best song win.

Cheese steaks are the gastronomic icons of this ethnic city.

In order to be a really good investor, you need to be a little bit of a philosopher as well.

If you count all fights like everybody else does, including Rickson, who says he has 400 fights; if you count like that, I have a million.

Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?

I wondered again why the right thing always seemed to be met with so much resistance, when you'd think it would be the easier path. You had to fight to be virtuous.