You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
Don't kill the golden goose.
The popularity of punk rock was, in effect, due to the fact that it made ugliness beautiful.
Be childish. Be irresponsible. Be disrespectful. Be everything this society hates.
What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.
To be a flamboyant failure, that's better than being any kind of benign success
There are two rules I've always tried to live by: turn left, if you're supposed to turn right; go through any door that you're not supposed to enter. It's the only way to fight your way through to any kind of authentic feeling in a world beset by fakery.
Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.
Being such a tomboy growing up, that was one thing that changed me as a person, as well. It broadened me, like me cracking myself open in a certain way.
The basic notion of justice, is that the rights of everybody are equals, in principle. In the rights of others, we have to respect our own rights. It is only in that condition that we can reasonnably require that it be respected by others.
I would have given you the world if you had given me the chance.