Death is not the biggest fear we have our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.

When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it, in a sense, too. There's a danger to feeling like an adult... like this whimsical kid in you is going to die or something. And then all of a sudden, one day you kind of feel like an adult and it's really nice.

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.