The only thing you will get from common sense, is a common life. Be uncommon and have uncommon sense.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

Your struggle is your strength. If you can resist becoming negative, bitter or hopeless, in time, your struggles will give you everything.

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.

We only hurt others because we don't love ourselves. Learning to truly love yourself changes your relationship with everyone.

It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.

Don't hold together what must fall apart. The familiar life crumbles so the new life can begin.

The love and attention you always thought you wanted from someone else is the love and attention you first need to give to yourself.

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

The feeling of being 'offended' is a warning indicator that is showing you where to look within yourself for unresolved issues.

No, officer, I have no idea why I'm wearing this possum costume. I called you what? OH. My bad."-Nastasya

You know there's got to be a better way of life - somewhere, sometime, somehow - but you're not exactly sure what better is.

Attitude is the source of beauty, self-confidence, success and happiness.

Birthday is a glorious day.

I've been motivated by overcoming challenge and overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that face me. There still is plenty out there to get motivated by.

Let's not bequeath the pop charts to just children.

It never hurt Lenny Bruce's career to get arrested for swearing. It did back in the time, but he broke those doors down by doing the stuff that he believed in.

Exercise is for people who can't handle drugs or alcohol.

A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.

I just know that young people suffer, and I also know music is one of the things that help you get through - music and friends.