"Ever since I got on Days I've been doing theater."

“You need to learn independence. You have to be independent - it builds character.”

“Ever since I picked up a bass, I've written songs.”

Source : "Special Feature: Pearl Jam". Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. March 30, 2001.

“I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.”

“A second characteristic of the process which for me is the good life, is that it involves an increasingly tendency to live fully in each moment. I believe it would be evident that for the person who was fully open to his new experience, completely without defensiveness, each moment would be new.”

“Your feelings will guide you if you have the courage to tap into them and listen.”

“My opinion is that somebody certainly has the right to do cartoons that make fun of somebody else's religion. But to reprint them just to provoke a fight and just to provoke it like thumbing your nose at someone else and going, "What are you gonna do about it?”

“Bustle, Sophronia, is not industry, as you very well know; people flutter and bustle about like a hen raising ducks, and then complain that their work has killed them, when it was the fuss that was the killing cause.”

Source : Julia McNair Wright (1895). “Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household”

“Meditation teaches us to focus and to pay clear attention to our experiences and responses as they arise, and to observe them without judging them.”

Source : Sharon Salzberg (2010). “Real Happiness - Enhanced Ebook Edition: The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Program”, p.10, Workman Publishing