Everyone you idolize wakes up scared to be themselves sometimes.

Just because today is a terrible day doesn't mean tomorrow might not be the best day of your entire life. You just have to wake up and get there

Always bet on yourself, no matter what the odds are. It means more to be in the race than watching the victory lap from the stands.

The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.

Music never leaves you alone, and punk rock will always be there when nothing else will.

And there are people that will stand in your corner and convince you to stand up for another round no matter what.

Our brains may lie to us, but our hearts never do.

Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people.

It takes knowledge to know something. It takes guts to do what you know.

Being surrounded by six Brendons is so not fun.

We are dreamers. We worship love, we hope against hope and toss practicality out the window.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

A beautiful word of love radiates joy for ever.

I saw what I could [in Mexico City], but we rarely got anything other than big, mainstream American films.

Absolutely nothing brings out the killer instinct in the upper crust of New York Society like a charity function.

dogs and angels are not very far apart

The heart the heart the heart how it thrives on hate.

Tell me about our legal issues. And use small words. I don't like to think at this hour of the morning. It hurts." ~Leo to Merripen

No unborn baby has ever had the right to choose or deny its own destruction.

In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time.

I belong deeply to myself.