I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

I don't care if you hate me or love me, as long as I make you think.

With every breath, I'm deeper in you.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

I always acted like a star long before I was one.

I laugh at myself. I don't take myself completely seriously. I think that's another quality that people have to hold on to... you have to laugh, especially at yourself.

Your beliefs don't make you a better person, your behavior does.

It isn’t easy when life tears away the one person in a million you thought you could always trust.

Work as if there's no one to help you, and learn as if everybody is with you.

He'd been given every word he needed, and every word had been stripped from me. I wanted them back. All of them.

Freedom to breed will bring ruin to all.

All political lives unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture end in failure.

For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .

Fate whirls on the bark, and the rough gale sweeps from the rising tide the lazy calm of thought.

To fly in space is to see the reality of Earth, alone. The experience changed my life and my attitude toward life itself. I am one of the lucky ones.

Nobody ever built a statue to a committee.