Stories cannot demolish frontiers, but they can punch holes in our mental walls, and through those holes we can get a glimpse of the other and sometimes even like what we see.

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.

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

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

When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do.

Life is just the time between crapping yourself.

It came up after doing St. Jimmy on Broadway for American Idiot. I loved acting, and so I just kept my options open.

Savor the imminent weirdness of the day.

In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen.

But there are a number of attitudes that should not be emotionally or psychologically ingested by young people.

Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five

I was pointing out the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia and the fact that Australia has been there for Indonesia when Indonesia has been in difficulty.

I believe that the death penalty is the ultimate deterrent to violent crime...period.

No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back- wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?