When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.

Every true artist is at war with the world.

Just the kind of girl I liked—the weirdo in the bunch.

When I looked into her eyes, I saw an invisible spirit of something that I already loved.

Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.

I had seen these transformations, people who had lost their will to live, coming back from their zombie states and radiating a new life force from their eyes.

Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.

When you realize that there's a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you've identified the problem, and now you can do something about it.

My work was done, so it was time to start digging my grave again.

Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in.

I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.

Truth is truth.

Moving forward should always be your one and only option to abide by in all circumstances. We were born to continuously strive and thrive.

But what all the violence of the feudal institutions could never have effected, the silent and insensible operation of foreign commerce and manufactures gradually brought about.

Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.

The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster.

For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.

Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country's cause.

For mine is the old belief... There is a soil in every leaf.

I've always believed that a lot of the trouble in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other.

If one completes the journey to one's own heart, one will find oneself in the heart of everyone else.