I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.

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.

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.

Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.

Motivation overcomes self-limitations.

The poor serve the elite, and they have too much fear to stop. So the poor get poorer, and the elite stay safe and powerful.

Appreciate what you have instead of regret ting for something you don't have.

Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them.

Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions.

Degree is much: the whole Atlantic might be lukewarm and never boil us a potato.

Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.

Getting older means you don't have to shave your legs anymore.

...you have no idea how mentally handicapped I could be if push comes to shove.

Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with 'em.