There are places from which you cannot return. There is damage that can be irreparable.

Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.

When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.

The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.

Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.

And as ridiculous as it may sound, sometimes all any of us needs in life is for someone to hold our hand and walk next to us.

When something is staring you in the face in your life and you see it with your own two eyes and feel it within your heart only a fool doesn't believe it to be true.

The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity.

I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent how I've lived.

A celebrity farts, and everyone endures, but the unpopular will be thrased to death.

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood and then mount the stump to make a speech for conservation.

I think of myself as a catalyst of action and a messenger of hope, turning people onto themselves and turning people onto their dreams.

Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy.

We want to be seen as more than just martial artists, or bad stereotype token roles in American TV and movies.

LOVE is to stop making demands on people and give them room to grow.

We need love - an awesome love grounded in the evolutionary potential for life on Earth - to become the organizing principle for human society.

No matter where you from, there's ghettos all over the place.

What I found interesting is that it's human nature to have a family.

We can often do more by doing less. God is not particularly interested in quantity production. That is an American standard, not a Bible standard.