It is better to prepare and prevent than it is to repair and repent.
The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family.
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Sometimes you cannot believe what you see. You have to believe what you feel.
Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
We've got a form of brainwashing going on in our country…. Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. MORE IS GOOD. MORE IS GOOD. We repeat it--and have it repeated to us--over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymore.
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.
A writer is always working.
Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak.
It's important to look ahead, I think, to shape your stuff for - again - effect. Because it's just so easy to write long, flowy sentences, get lost in them. The hard part's making them matter, making yourself make them matter.
When I'm at home alone, I run up the stairs naked. It's quite funny.