Confidence is not 'they will like me'. Confidence instead is 'I'll be fine if they don't'.

Be stupid, be dumb, be funny, if that's who you are. Don't try to be someone that society wants you to be, that's stupid. So be yourself.

People aren't born strong. people grow stronger little by little, encountering difficult situations learning not to run from them.

I'm not perfect, but I believe my faith in Jesus Christ will really take me far in the world!

If It's your passion and you want to do it for the rest of your life, why would comments stop you from doing that?

No matter what society is trying to drill in your head about how you should look, how you should act, and what you need to say, I think it's all crap. All of it. Be yourself and do you.

Be different; be unique; be yourself.

If you can't find what's unique, people aren't going to listen.

Most of all I like to sing my heart out to lyrics that really speak to people.

Don't let the idiots that like to bring you down, succeed in discouraging you. I let it get to me a while ago, and let me tell you, it feels SO good to come up under it!

Please, please, PLEASE be yourself. If you catch yourself not, take a step back.

The greater the pain associated with love, the more likely a person is to be attracted to others who will inflict this pain…for isn’t this what love is? Hurt people tend to hurt other people.

The knowledge you acquire in an area of study is accompanied by an incalculable ignorance. The farther we get into anything, we learn that we have even farther to go.

It is actually a good survival strategy to manipulate twist, and reorganize the truth in a way that is more consistent with what we can psychologically tolerate.

Stupid questions will never exist and won't ever exist.

I was born in the middle of a stormYou won't find me under the sunMy feet are chaosI belong to the wild things

The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.

I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space.

The best gift is giving from your heart

Miracles arise from conviction. Be convicted about these things: Miracles can happen. Miracles do happen. Love makes them happen.

Elvis ate America before America ate him.