Don't let pain define you. I do that a lot... but we can fight it all together. That's what I love about us and our fans. we fight together.

If you ever think about giving up, remember why you held on for so long.

No boy is worth your teenage years!.

Believe in your dreams even when they seem lost.

Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand.

People who are 'different' are usually the ones that end up making a difference in the world.

Remember to enjoy everything. The things that feel good, the things that hurt. It’s all gonna make you better. Stronger.

I believe music is a place everyone of us can go to. I don’t care who you are, where you were born, what you do with your life. Everyone can come here in music and be equal.

Life is not always good, which is why music exists.

Suicide is no solution. Keep fighting.

To anyone that ever told you you're no good.. they're no better.

Visionary decision-making happens at the intersection of intuition and logic.

Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.

The problem Creationists identify is with the word 'theory', not with the case for evolution

I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.

By accepting you as you are, I do not necessarily abandon all hope of your improving

At the end of the day, the Detroiter may be the most important American there is because no one knows better than he that we're all standing at the edge of the shaft.

The yellow star? Oh well, what of it? You dont die of it.

Innocence ain’t all it’s cracked up to be, you know. Innocent little kids rip the wings off flies, because they don’t know any better. That’s innocence

For, when all is said, as my friend George Rublee likes to put it, the only success is to be a success as a person; and it is still not too late for that.

The book [The Dissemblers] officially came out two weeks after my thirtieth birthday...am I still young?