"My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them."
Wisdom
"The best teacher is experience and not philosophical speculation."
Knowledge
"I want to marry you and have your children."
Love
"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
Happiness
"He had the greatest laugh I ever heard."
Humor
"Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars."
Time
"Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous burritos and lock yourself in the dark room with plunderphonics and too many schedules."
Motivation
"It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen."
Truth
"Believing in nothing has already cost me plenty, yet I believe in it still."
Faith
"The world you are looking for can be found in the simplest of moments."
Wisdom
"I'm starting to think that when you die you don't go to heaven or hell, you just go to sleep."
Death
"I don't know how to say goodbye. I don't know if we ever can."
Relationships
"We are always dying and being born again."
Change
"I am the son of the American night."
Freedom
"Pay attention to the moment and it will teach you everything you need to know."
Philosophy
"The only thing we got in this world is the present moment."
Time
"Say it slow, say it quick - the essential message stays the same."
Wisdom
"Work, build, and create until the world matches your vision."
Work
"The true cure is kindness, not medication."
Kindness
"I suddenly realized what I had been runnin around doing all my life - I was looking for it."
Truth
"They call it the beatific generation, but I don't feel any beatification."
History
"The night knows all secrets."
Solitude
"Hope is the thing with wings that lands in your heart."
Hope
"America is doing us a gray injustice."
Justice
"I want to gather the entire world in my arms."
Love
"Better to spend one day awake than a thousand days asleep."
Courage
"Patience is a virtue that requires practice."
Patience
"The moment you know you're beaten, you've already lost."
Perseverance
"Grateful for the sunshine, even when it rains inside."
Gratitude
"I was young and didn't know what else to do."