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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.

Love is the foundation from which your decisions about your life should be made.

The way I go about a lovemaking scene is that we will talk about it during the rehearsing time.

Being yourself is one of the hardest things because it's scary. You always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are. I decided to call my record 'Inside Out' because that's my motto about life. I don't think you ever succeed at trying to be anyone else but who you truly are.

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

The person that's always talkin', you don't have to worry about that person. The person that while you're in his face, he's just lookin' at you with a smile on his face, that's the guy you worry about.

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

So what is so strange about saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to reconstruct and reform this nation so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? I want the country to survive. I want the country to succeed.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex.

It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.

As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.

I think suicide is sort of like cancer was 50 years ago. People don't want to talk about it, they don't want to know about it. People are frightened of it, and they don't understand, when actually these issues are medically treatable.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.

There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying 'What can I learn?.' That's a very different approach.

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.

You're going to hear a lot from President Obama and yes, from Joe Biden, you're hearing a little bit about Medicare these days. What they will not tell you is they turned Medicare into a piggybank to fund 'Obamacare.' They took $716 billion dollars to pay for the 'Obamacare' program.

You feel sometimes when you hear analysts and knowledgeable people talking about Iran that they fear so much about the survival of the regime, because deep down it's not a legitimate regime, it doesn't represent the will of the people, it's kind of morphed into kind of a military theocracy.

I tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.