But we are what we are, and humans will always hate.

Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.

When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.

The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.

Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.

And as ridiculous as it may sound, sometimes all any of us needs in life is for someone to hold our hand and walk next to us.

When something is staring you in the face in your life and you see it with your own two eyes and feel it within your heart only a fool doesn't believe it to be true.

The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity.

I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent how I've lived.

It is less about becoming a better person, and more of being better, as a person.

Women most often have a difficult enemy and she is a woman and not a man.

The Snow White the midnight the moon tales of the mechanics

The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.

Reality is like a face reflected in the blade of a knife; its properties depend on the angle from which we view it.

I've had to work for everything I have, and I'm not going to stop. The minute I feel I've made it, I'm done.

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'

The people have spoken, but it will take a while to determine exactly what they said.

All that we are looking for in life - all the happiness, contentment, and peace of mind - is right here in the present moment.