Be ye therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves.

One of my favorite quotes ever was from Slash from Guns and Roses and he said 'to be truly iconic, you need to be able to recognized in a silhouette'

If clouds are blocking the sun, there will always be a silver lining that reminds me to keep on trying.

Take criticism, smash it into dust. Add color and use it to paint breathtaking images of unicorns frolicking through endless fields of greatness.

Life's too short to drink crappy coffee and cry over boys who don't care.

I think it's perfectly acceptable and rather admirable to be moderately delusional

Never take a person away from the music they love.

If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.

I'm just tired; I just want the world to be quiet for a bit.

There's a lot that's happened in my life that maybe I didn't want to happen, but I suppose it's led me to exactly where I am now.

I'd kill myself without music. Immediately. Life is pointless without music for me.

We are mathematical equations where your life is the sum of all choices you've made until now. The good news is you can change the equation so that you start making a difference in your life.

Men are frightful nuisances at times

Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying?" (Seeing all her children assembled at her bedside in her last illness.)

When trying to teach someone a boundary, they learn less from the enforcement of the boundary and more from the way the boundary was established.

The more instances we examine, and the more care we employ, the more assurance shall we acquire, that the enumeration, which we form from the whole, is complete and entire.

Do your own thing. Speak in your voice.

It was as relaxing as being tickled.

I want to play for a championship team. I want to win a championship.

The press . . . traditionally sides with authority and the establishment.

We have no physical model of this endless rhythm of individuation and involvement, we do have its image in the world of art, most purely in dance.