Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up.

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.

Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

You get to the point where your demons, which are terrifying, get smaller and smaller and you get bigger and bigger.

The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.

Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.

You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.

What do you do with your legacy, and how do you best put it to use?

It wasn’t fair, he thought — Aaron having no family and Tamara having her scary family and now Jasper. Soon, there would be no one left for him to hate without feeling bad about it.

No one needs to be around someone who dulls the shine on a brand new penny.

It's not what you know but the kind of job you do that makes the difference.

He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.

You can only be this high-powered mojo rock band for so long, then you just can't look people in the eye. So, we've projected our own demise.

Nobody near me here, but rats, and they are fine stealthy secret fellows.

Even in the world of molecules the civilising influence of modest restraints is a cause for rejoicing.

The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.

I would say, if you're buying less expensive clothes, buy two sizes bigger. They'll hang better.

Art is a perfectly complete cause.