And, sure, fine, I do check my phone about every two minutes, but so do a lot of people, and it's better than smoking, that's what I say. It's the new, lung-safe cigarette.

You can ruin anything if you focus at it.

But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.

Most teenage girls don't give old people the time of day which is sad because all old people do all the time is think about how nice it was to be a teenager so long ago.

You can't predict the outcome. You can't raise a child and then tell them what to think.

I just like the feeling of finding the right word in my mind and employing it. I get pleasure from that feeling. I prefer language to gesture. I figured other people might, too.

That's the thing with handmade items. They still have the person's mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone.

It was ridiculous, at times, how many tears one body could produce.

It is difficult to want to tell a grave that it is not immortal. It's so obvious at that point.

We're like the couple on the sitcom that has good sparks but never get together for the sake of ratings.

One of the main roots of ungodliness is being a lover of pleasure more than a lover of God.

Great minds with great ideas usually share in the midst of their persecution

After my mother's death I began to see her as she had really been.... It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.

But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus.

Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same time a tomb, in which, voluntarily, one slowly inters oneself.

Advice I would give to anyone trying to find their own personal style: don't copy anybody, just be yourself, and make your own trends.

I didn't choose painting, it chose me.I didn't have a talent,i just had genius

Success may result in winning, but winning does not necessarily mean you are a success.

I look at albums like novels. If you write a really good scene or a really good moment, just because you wrote it, doesn't mean that it fits with the story that you're writing.

Poised for flight, Wings spread bright, Spring from night into the Sun.