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The only critic is a full house.

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

Things are not as bad as it seems. The situations that cause us sorrow are the same ones that introduce us to the strength, power and wisdom that we truly are.

Optimism is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion.

I'd like to record somewhere really different. Rent a really big house and get a mobile in and set up in the dining room. Maybe New England; it'd be nice in September or October.

If I had to use a single word to describe what is fundamentally wrong with government today, I would use the word fraud.

We will use the actions of others to decide on proper behavior for ourselves, especially when we view those others as similar to ourselves

Of all evil-doers, the American is most to be feared. He uses more ingenuity in the planning of his projects and will take greater risks in carrying them out than any other malefactor on earth.

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.

I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.

We learn a lot, and each museum ends up having its own distinctive character and personality.

Everything else you see and experience in this world is effect, and that includes your feelings. The cause is always your thoughts.

History, in other words, is just a device to be used by well-paid boobherds to drive the American cattle in bovine content to their pastures or to the abattoir.

Family is more than DNA, more than who we used to be, more than we can imagine we will become.

I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.

Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.

It'll be nice not to have to use my fake IDs anymore.

Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.

It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone.

No human being can go on living in the same house with a pigeon, a pigeon is the epitomy of chaos and anarchy, a pigeon that whizzes around unpredictably, that sets it's claws in you, picks at your eyes.

Literacy is the tool we use as humans to find one another, so it must belong to everyone.

In the house of poetry nothing endures that is not written with blood to be heard with blood.

Its true that contemporary technology permits decentralization, it also permits centralization. It depends on how you use the technology.

If you really want to seriously think about life, and therefore take painting very seriously... and take seriously the joys that it can bring to one, then you want to go to museums. You want to study the great of the past.