To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

I don't do drugs, I am drugs

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.