I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.

Every band always tells you to raise your middle finger.

When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try to treat the world better than it treated you.

No one's busy thinking bad things about you. They're all too busy thinking bad things about themselves.

Sometimes before it gets better, the darkness gets bigger. The person that you'd take a bullet for is behind the trigger.

Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.

I'm very much a night person. Morning is a thing I only experience because I have to.

You could be your own spotlight!

Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.

When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.

Speed is absolutely key to creativity. The more time it takes to create something, the less likely you are to create something.

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.

Duty is not beneficial because it is commanded, but is commanded because it is beneficial.

In the mere concept of one thing it cannot be found any character of its existence.

Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.

Peace is not a dream; it is hard work, and there is nothing naive, glamorous or simplistic about it.

Without the ability to visualize a goal and believe it will be reached, nothing of substance will be achieved. Not by anybody. Not at any time. Not in any place.

You can't see the water until you run into it. A little boy took off running through it. He got all muddy.

I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using.

The most any one can do is to confess as candidly as he can the grounds for the faith that is in him, and leave his example to work on others as it may.