I think my biggest revelation was to write entirely from the heart, and to convey emotion, even when it meant forcing myself to feel uncomfortable in doing so.

Be real, because a mask only fools people on the outside. Pretending to be someone you're not takes a toll on the real you, and the real you is more important than anyone else.

Dreams don't always have to exist while the sun's down and your eyes are shut

Therapy is about every kids nightmare when people are telling you that you need to get help but all you really want is a hug.

You are who you are and that's the most beautiful thing in the world.

Music is the soundtrack to every good and bad time we will ever have.

The closest friends you'll have are the ones you'd take a bullet for, but they're the ones you constantly feel you could put a bullet in as well.

Being a fan doesn't mean being there from the start... It means being there till the end.

Be your own kind of beautiful, it's super important. Take that to heart and always be yourself.

Life's greatest tragedy is not that it will someday end, but that most only live to follow directions and sometimes we end up totally lost.

Fools die happy. The happy die young. The young die foolish.

But even so, I wondered--how well do we really ever know someone?

Living according to the basic gospel principles will bring power, strength, and spiritual self-reliance into the lives of all Latter-day Saints.

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

The desire to be loved is really death when it comes to art.

Life means that I can live to see tomorrow.

If the Bible is uniquely and inerrantly inspired, then we have certainty; we may know real truth about God

That's the same thing that is making me like George W. Bush. "He was nice. I know he was nice. He didn't know what he was doing but he was nice."

A certain portion of mankind do not believe at all in the existence of the gods.

When we find ourselves wondering about the meaning of conditions and events, its always useful to ask, who profits?

If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.