The people you have to lie to, own you. The things you have to lie about, own you.

If I had the money and the drinking capacity, I'd probably live at a roulette table and let my life go to hell.

All paths cause pain, so to chose the safe over the audacious will not give you less pain, only less beauty.

It may be that it is not given to us to know when we are angels. We may only be given to know when others are. This may be one of the reasons we need each other so.

Leave people alone when they tell you to leave them alone. If they mean it, they need it.

Be careful how you choose your enemy, for you will come to resemble him. The moment you adapt your enemy's methods your enemy has won. The rest is suffering and historical opera.

To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind--is to be crazy, not healthy.

If your vulnerability has become hardened, it's very, very difficult to be creative.

An artist without obsession isn't worth a damn!

Stop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends.

My employer uses twenty-six years of my life for every year I get to keep. And what do I get in return for the enormous thing I am giving? What do I get in return for my life?

Stories are the single most powerful weapon in a leader’s arsenal

Be at peace with your soul and any other souls.

While most activists could use a good dose of gentleness, I think most believers could use a good dose of holy anger.

Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.

Traveling is not a hindrance for me; it's something I actually enjoy.

I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me.

The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.

We are not made for law, we are made for love.

Coming age is the age of knowledge. However rich, poor or powerful a country be, if they want to move ahead, only knowledge can lead them to that path.

Bad men cannot make good citizens.