Don't try to fix me, I'm not broken...

If people make fun of you, that probably means you're doing something right.

Don't be afraid of the shadows, that only means there's a light nearby.

Forget the place you're trying to get to and see the beauty in right now...

How can you see into my eyes like open doorsLeading you down into my coreWhere I've become so numb without a soulMy spirit sleeping somewhere coldUntil you find it there and lead it back home

I was like, 'Dude, make me look bad. Please. I want to look ugly. I want to wear orange pants.

Loneliness, dejection, the contempt or pity of people around you--these are unpleasant feelings. But they are precisely the things that produce genuine Dark Ones.

It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for.

The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl.

The ripest fruit first falls.

It is time to extend planning to a wider field, in this instance comprehending in one great project many states directly concerned with the basin of one of our greatest rivers.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

I think whites are used to being in power, so when whites think we ought to have integrated churches they think, "People ought to come to our church. What can we do to get them to come?"

We're not saying, 'We're politicians, trust us.' We know you don't trust us.

I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Elections are about choosing sides, but inaugurations are about closing ranks.