Socialism isn't a dirty word; it just means sharing. Really, it's just the bureaucratic arm of Christianity.

By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.

As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion

You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you.

I get fixated when I'm bleeding -- I can see why they went in for blood-letting in the medieval times because it makes you feel a bit better. When I cut myself, the drama of it calms me down.

The bad-boy label is just an assumption.

The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have.

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might because they aren't looking in the right direction for a solution. They aren't looking within.

I thought I was promiscuous, but it turns out I was just thorough.

A wise person is the one who knows what he knows and what he does not know.

All of the reasons we decided to part, elude me now.

For me, the act of photography is all about discovery and finding new things.

Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it.

Before I do a movie, I watch Meryl Streep movies over and over. It's not to mimic her. It's to remind myself to be more committed.

Regrets over the past should chasten the future.

While I think the earth is warming, I don't think that man-made causes are the primary factor.

Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone.

Kami'd always retold her fairy tales to make the fair maidens braver and more self-sufficient, but she had never had any real objection to the handsome prince.

Most people I know that have work that is very meaningful to them pay the price of having to work all the time.