"Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out."

"If you value yourself, you understand that you are a gift to anyone you meet."

"The words you say to yourself create your self image."

"Forgiveness ... is a willingness to get over what you think should have happened and an acceptance of the reality of what actually happened."

"Forgiveness is not a one-time-only event. It is a process."

"Invest in the life you have to get the life you want."

"Is what I am saying loving, compassionate, kind, empowering, or insightful?"

"Trust is sacred. Honor your inner voice. Listen."

"When I am true to myself, others are given permission to do the same."

"Where you begin doesn't matter. Your willingness to start is what counts."

"Purpose directs passion and passion ignites purpose."

"Being willing makes you able."

"No one can be fearless alone."

"Let go of what you think life should be so you can experience the life you have."

"Seeing people as innocent is the greatest gift you can give another human being: the gift of acceptance."

"Be loving and the love in your life will increase."

"Fear is an affirmation of your growth because it proves that you are risking."

"Mastering your fear means accepting it, owning it, and making it work for you instead of against you."

"True discipline takes heightened awareness and self-mastery.There is no such thing as sacrifice. There are only choices."

"When you live with intention, your primary focus is the process rather than the end result."

"We are contributing to the world just by being willing to be ourselves."

"Intention is living in the present, actively choosing the future while being aware that in each moment your state of mind is up to you."

"Release your attachment to the outcome. Invest fully in your intention. Stand for the truth. Keep kindness a priority."

"I am the lizard king. I can do anything."

"I'm always a bit suspicious when lyricists call themselves poets,"

"Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you."

"I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something."

"Actually I don't remember being born, It must have happened during one of my black outs."

"It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice."

"Hatred is a very underestimated emotion."

"Love cannot save you from your own fate."

"Music inflames temperament."

"How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom? I think it's a lie – people claim they want to be free – everybody insists that freedom is what they want the most, the most sacred and precious thing a man can possess. But that's bullshit! People are terrified to be set free – they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It's their security…How can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?"

"How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom? I think it's a lie people claim they want to be free everybody insists that freedom is what they want the most, the most sacred and precious thing a man can possess. But that's bullshit! People are terrified to be set free they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It's their securityHow can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?"

"I've always liked reptiles. I used to see the universe as a mammoth snake, and I used to see all the people and objects, landscapes, as little pictures in the facets of their scales. I think peristaltic motion is the basic life movement. Swallowing,"

"I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom."

"I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments."

"Where's your will to be weird?"

"Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence."

"Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors."

"If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel."

"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free."

"I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments."

"I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown."

"I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable."

"The time to hesitate is through."

"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to-letting a person be what he really is."

"Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was: curiosity."

"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical."

"People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain."