Hearing a crowd scream is the coolest sound in the world. It can motivate me to do anything.

I'm captivated by you, baby, like a firework show.

I'm shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town

you're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry

You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for.

Believe in everything you do. Believe in your mistakes and grow from them.

No matter how bad your day is, just be grateful this day is added to your life.

I still love writing in my journal and wearing sparkly dresses and looking at old chandeliers.

People are going to judge you anyway, so you might as well do what you want.

I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

The world gets better every day - then worse again in the evening.

A puritan is such a one as loves God with all his soul, but hates his neighbor with all his heart.

Persistence is self-discipline in action.

Anything less would not have been worthy of me. Anything more would not have been possible.

The vices come as passengers, visit us as guest and stay as masters.

When you're playing a character who's cruel, look for the places where he's kind. When you're playing a character who is unhappy, look for the places where he has a glint of merriment.

I think every book is a reaction to everything you're written before, and most immediately to the book you wrote just before.

I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.

There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.

Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.