I just wanna kind of give the world something special.

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching

As soon as I go into a Starbucks I take off my sunglasses. I want to be recognised and I want free coffee.

So people keep asking me what this badge is for... this badge makes me the sheriff, the sheriff of Emo town, so get your straight irons and eyeliner ready!

Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself and become a new person.

It's okay to love something a little too much,as long as it's real to you.

NOTHING is worth hurting yourself over. NOTHING is worth taking your life over, DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!

All your quirks and all your problems - even your depressions and your failures - that’s what makes you you.

Tears are words the heart can't express

Don't ever let the media tell you what your body is supposed look like. You're beautiful the way you are. Stay beautiful, keep it ugly.

Discover. Read. Learn.

Such things happen.

I've seen my mother struggling, everything that she did to raise me and my brothers and my sisters, and I know the anger that she went through.

My wife, who does not like journalizing, said it was leaving myself embowelled to posterity--a good strong figure. But I think itis rather leaving myself embalmed. It is certainly preserving myself.

You'll be scandalized in the morning when you can think again.

The closer you are to people, the more you realise what has happened to them.

The most important ingredient of leadership is character. Most of the proficiencies can be learned, but what's inside you is something that's difficult to change.

Happiness isn't something that happens to you. It is what you yourself do and determine upon.

How do we know imagination isn't just a different way of knowing something? A message from outside.

My whole strength lies in prayer and sacrifice, these are my invincible arms; they can move hearts far better than words, I know it by experience.