What I have to say to an inhabitant of the Earth in one hundred years is similar to what I have to say to the present inhabitants of Earth. To be creative.

Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul

Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into

What's gone will never come back, but it exists when you think of it.

I still love with all my heart anything that I have ever loved in my life.

That's what I spend most of my time doing, breathing a lot. I like air.

When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.

Even if my songs are a bit low-spirited, they make me happy. I become happy when I hear sad songs. When you sing about sad things in a beautiful way, the atmosphere turns upside down

Music is my friend, no matter where I go.

The imagination is the most real world that we know because we each know it first hand.

In the Chili Peppers I'm a part of that world in a pretty big world and that's just the way it is.

But what reality was ever made by realists?

Treat your anger with the utmost respect and tenderness, for it is no other than yourself.

God has called us to be His representatives in our nation and in our world. Select candidates who represent your views and work for their election.

A well arranged scrapbook, filled with choice selections, is a most excellent companion for anyone who has the least literary taste.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

Democracy is four wolves and a sheep voting on dinner.

Every time that we sin, we are born of the devil. But every time that we do good, we are born of God.

For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.

Whatever I do might be good, it might be bad, it might be all sorts of things, but it's not mediocre.

The hardest part about storytelling is knowing what happens in the end.