I couldn't be anorexic because I like food too much, and I couldn't be bulimic because I hate throwing up too much.

I usually run three or four times a week now. Pretty boring, but it's so worth is. It's done wonders for my mood

I always find it a little scary to say that I'm like a character.

Point shoes are torture devices.

If I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk, and the risk led to one my greatest artistic and personal experiences.

I studied psychology in school, and the best psychology is in literature. It's so much easier to understand a character than a theory. You can recognize yourself—or other people—in a different way.

Our generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever-more connected world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place.

If we can find ways to love life and be joyful without being wasteful or destructive--that's what's important.

Some relationships aren't true relationships. And it's usually when the other person does something really terrible that you realize it. And that's when it's time to move on.

Part of my reason for being vegetarian was because it practices respect and love for life all through the day, so three times a day, you make a decision to eat things that have not been killed.

Pointe shoes are torture devices. I mean, ballerinas get used to it, but it was definitely a new experience for me. They feel medieval. I was very happy to stop wearing them.

The good news is we have the technology and the tools to alleviate poverty on a global scale. All that is standing in our way is education and will.

I think the opportunities are all over the place - around your corner or in more exotic locales. But everyone finding their own interest - sometimes it's hard to know what you're interested in, I think.

If you're listening to music, then the music is your friend; or if you're with a person, then that person can be your friend because you're communicating.

If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.

You really know a person when you sleep so near to them, or when you eat with them.

Use Starbucks mints for every occasion—they're the strongest

If you read, your book is kind of your friend, because it's like the book is telling you its story and you're being the listener.

I'm trying to use whatever attention is focused on me and divert it to something that really deserves the attention and try and sort of stay out of the way of the rest of the stuff.

I think that most women know what happens that leads you to a point where you're not even looking for intimacy anymore. You're just looking for the physical side of it and not the emotional side of it.

No one will ever love you as much as I do. Why isn't love enough?

I'm pretty immature and get pretty embarrassed easily. I would check out once in a while certain shots to make sure that I felt OK because sometimes once you see it you realize it is fine.

I'm with my friends more than I'm with my parents, but I know more about my parents than I know about my friends. That's something you get out of living with a person.

My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice.

You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray without surrender. You can fight without ever winning, but never ever win without a fight.

No changes are permanent, but change is.

Could hell be a place where there is no self-respect? A place where people have no pride in their own existence or behavior, and thus would have none for anyone or anything else?

A spirit with a vision is a dream with a mission.

Geddy once joked, 'You're the only guy I know who rehearses to rehearse!

Adventures suck when you're having them.

Each of us A cell of awareness Imperfect and incomplete Genetic blends With uncertain ends On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet

Courageous convictions will drag the dream into existence.

Half the world hates What half the world does every day Half the world waits While half gets on with it anyway

Half the world cries Half the world laughs Half the world tries To be the other half

From the point of ignition. To the final drive. The point of the journey is not to arrive.

We're only immortal for a limited time.

You can't get wise with sleep still in your eyes no matter what your dream might be.

From first to last, the peak is never passed. Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes.

Don't try to change Doofus, let Doofus change you.

A quality of justice A quantity of light A particle of mercy Makes the color of right

Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.

Racetracks are designed to make it as difficult as possible to get around that corner fast. And some ramps, by necessity, are that way, too.

The government's only functions are to protect the rights of the individual; therefore, you need a police force and an army.

You can twist perception reality won"t budge you can raise objection I won2t be judge and jury

Your soul is stained with the blood of the innocent, feel their pain

Now I call myself a bleeding heart libertarian. Because I do believe in the principles of Libertarianism as an ideal - because I'm an idealist.

Each of us, A CEll Of Awareness... imperfect, and incomplete. Genetic blends, with uncertain ends.

The thing for me about Ayn Rand is that her philosophy is the only one applicable to the world today - in every sense. If you take her ideas, then take them farther in your own mind, you can find answers to pretty well everything on an individual basis.

For a person of my sensibility, you're only left with the Democratic party.