I must bridge the gap between adolescent glitter and mature glow.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

Everything changes, sweetheart. The universe loves to happen.

Always remember, difficult situations are thrust upon those who have the power to influence events.

I just want to continue to be challenged and to keep getting better and better. I don't ever want to lose that or become complacent or pulling tricks.

Stop worrying about tomorrow. Stop thinking about yesterday. Mindfulness is to be here now, in the moment. Focus on this moment.

All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.

To look ahead one must learn to look back.

The Bible is the divine means of developing spiritual maturity. There is no other way.

I want to succeed. And I want to succeed in the best way possible, without caring whether people call my actions leftist or rightist.

The third indication that our dreams are dead is peace.

Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task