To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!

Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.

My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.

The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.

Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.

It's been a long time since I've been me.

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

Every moment, every breath, is a new opportunity. An opportunity to let go of the past and to become the person you choose to be.

People always say in the end you only regret the choices you didn't make but I really think you also regret the choices you were foolish enough to make.

Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Everybody is headed for the same place, and they are headed on the same train, and under the same engineer.

Everybody feels like they need a photograph because we're in a generation where, if you don't document it, it didn't occur. So you've got to stop and take a picture with everybody.

The people you killed seem to be in excellent health.

I love Katy Perry! She gave me a song for my second album.

The juice goes out of Christianity when it becomes too based on faith rather than on living like Jesus or seeing the world as Jesus saw it.