We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.

It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.

Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.

The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.

Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.

The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.

The world was floods above and fire below

Oh, everything is gorgeous once it's gone.

The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.

Joy is all around me, and I celebrate it all.

No achievement can be higher than that of working in harmony with other nations so that the lash of war may be lifted from our backs and a peace of lasting friendship descend upon us.

Before making a decision, ask inside for guidance. Be patient and await an answer. Act only when you feel calm and certain.

There's a guy out there who will want to tell everyone that he is your boyfriend. Quit goofing around and go find him.

You write in order to change the world.

I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.

There are two kinds of writers, those who are and those who aren't. With the first, content and form belong together like soul and body; with the second, they match each other like body and clothes.

Don't evaluate yourself, don't evaluate others. Just keep going after it.

Voting is the next-to-last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge, of course, is giving your opinion to a pollster.

Evolution is the Law of Life Number is the Law of the Universe Unity is the Law of God