When you learn to die, you learn to live.

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel.

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

You don't understand. You're not a wave. You're part of the ocean.

The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.

The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.

Although you may be old or sick, it's not too late to take stock and ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be.

In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive. And at the end of life, we need others to survive. But here's the secret, in between, we need others as well.

Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?

It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people.

If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all.

Sadness is a grieve spirit. But Sorrow is refined the soul.

The financial elite already have the politicians in their pockets, as a result of their lobbying.

Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged.

When kids my age were picking up toy cars, I used to buy toy guns.

I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing comics weren't just kid stuff.

She's applying her lipstick; I've always believed that the universe invented the color red solely for Latinas.

The only real security in life lies in relishing life's insecurity.

The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

Whoever dreamed up Scrabble had an exaggerated idea of how many 7-letter words have five i's.

Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself, to the inner core, a place where you are calm and at peace.