There are people who want to live and then the people who want to hold them down. I've tried to not be one of the latter my entire life.

It's hard to have your parents not happy with you.

You can make yourself happy.

I'm not macho. I'm very open about things. I don't try to hide my feelings.

There is no normal life; it's just an idea we've been fed. People who realize that tend to be the happiest.

You can become something you don't want to become, but it's a change, a new phase. Hopefully one you want.

You can always be writer. It's not so much a metamorphosis as it is finding what you want.

There's no such thing as a perfect life, but if you hold on to that long enough and watch it get chipped away, that's really hard to deal with. I had no one telling me otherwise.

Movies and novels, the two things that informed and taught me the most, are forms of escapism. I thought that was how life could look if you wanted it to.

There are people that will try to hurt you and hold you down.

Boldness comes from curiosity.

It isn't 'Too late now', shouldn't it be 'From now on'? That is the password that will take away the regret.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

Like it or not, we have to have a financial system that is healthy and functioning.

I do not understand men. They spend their lives to use their health to make money and then they spend their money to restore their health.

Even the people that support Bush aren't happy with the way things are going in Iraq.

If you want to assemble the same people, then you have a big problem.

Just becauseWe cannot see,We are not entitled to doubt.

I hate politics. What they say and what they do is completely different.

Love is something eternal.