Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.

You ain't gonna learn what you don't wanna know.

Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else.

You don't want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.

Nothing left to do but smile.

It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

If you're able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.

All I know is, if you listen to society, you'll never get anywhere!

You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.

No matter where we live on the planet or how difficult our situation seems to be, we have the ability to overcome and transcend our circumstances.

If you're gonna catch fire

I can trust my friends. ... These people force me to examine myself encourage me to grow.

It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.

You have the gift of a brilliant internal guardian that stands ready to warn you of hazards and guide you through risky situations.

One does not play the piano with one's fingers, one plays the piano with one's mind.

But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.

It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all.

Negative thinking is always expensive--dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically--hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.

Singing is a lover's thing.