I don't want to know how you did it. I want to believe you are magic.

A second can feel like forever if what follows is heartbreak.

When you care about other people, it takes the spotlight off your own drama.

The ability to keep your mouth shut is usually a sign of intelligence

All reality is a blender where hopes and dreams are mixed with fear and despair.

I somehow make it through the first month. I dress and brush my teeth when they tell me to. And I experience the hollow feeling of complete loss, which is emptiness.

If you're lost, you might need to swim against the tide.

What we expect rarely occurs; what we don't expect is what happens.

Endings are always the beginnings of something else

It has been my experience that rewarding and heartbreaking often go hand in hand.

I'm putting my place in the universe into perspective. I'm stardust. I'm golden brown. I'm just one small bit in a vast expanse.

Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness.

No situation is beyond God’s control. Over my wife’s desk are these words: “Fear not the future

A man cannot deserve adventures

Those wounds stay with you, and you turn them into a language and a purpose.

It was so incredible to be able to get the opportunity to make my own first album. I never expected to do that.

How many presidents, do you think, ever said to another guy: 'I can't believe we're doing this in the White House'?

Finally, you had to measure yourself by other people - there really was nothing else. every now and then, quite unintentionally, someone taught you something about yourself.

Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden.

I understand the law through the operation of which my own character is developed from my own acts and thoughts; therefore, I will guard with care all that goes into its development.

The people that were socially awkward from my generation, they all had paper routes and that taught them the discipline of work.