Some people were just getting on with their lives, chatting, being young. It simply wouldn't do.

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.

Unhappy parents teach you a lesson that lasts a lifetime.

I wish that love could be broken down the way it breaks me down.

Mockery is childish. It does not become you.

It’s a fool who thinks having a kid is a right, which is the biggest crock of fish heads I’ve ever heard.

The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.

All of earth's creatures have, hidden within their beings, a wild uncontrollable urge to punt!

Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon.

At least I have precluded the possibility of peaking too early.

The depths of the self are the heights of God.

Books cannot teach God, but they can destroy ignorance; their action is negative.