It's tremendously hard work. Yes, I love arranging the words and having them fall on the ear the right way and you know you're not quite there and you're redoing it and redoing it and there's a wonderful thrill to it. But it is hard.
Our time on Earth is so random.
Too often, we spend our days thinking about what we don't have rather than what we do have. Be grateful every day.
There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white.
The best education I have ever received was through travel.
Refrain from being too judgmental. You'll often be surprised by what people have to offer.
I think we need to take a look at the technology, but not depend on it for things that require humanity.
We've got the slowest 311 song ever, called 'Solar Flare,' which is a scathing political rap that [vocalist] S. A. [Martinez] puts over a really slow, heavy thing, And then there's also a really fast one called 'It's Getting OK Now,' which is [guitarist] Tim Mahoney channeling Dimebag Darrell [Abbott of Pantera].
You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Whatsit said. You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.
Complete your task. Seek no reward. Make no claims. Without faltering fully choose to do what you must do.
Are you ready to sacrifice to end world hunger? To sacrifice to end colonialism? To end neo-colonialism? To end racism? To end sexism?