"The true measure of a man is the truest form of bravery is vulnerability."

"Patience is a virtue because the roots of true happiness grow deep in the present moment."

"It is a essential truth that let thoughts come and go like clouds across an undisturbed autumn sky — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted."

"I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit."

"It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country."

"He who understands his own mind is never bewildered by the complexities of the world. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."

"I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are."