I wish I could walk into a room and feel superior and have my nose up at everybody, but I can't, because I know I'm just a huge nerd, and that wouldn't work for me.

People are not born heroes or villains; they’re created by the people around them.

A villain is just a victim whose story hasn’t been told.

When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sand paper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end, you end up polished and they end up useless.

If you truly own who you are, no one can use you against you.

I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me up with a cowboy hat and we'd go to the rodeo when I was younger and it traumatized me for life.

You can't shy away from your greatness just because you're afraid you're not great enough

Even in the worst of situations-even when it seems no one in the world appreciates you-as long as you have hope, everthing can get better

Courage is one thing that no one can ever take away from you.

To Grandma: Once upon a time, there was a boy who flew.

You don’t get to pick where you’re from, but you always have control of where you’re going.

I’d tell you to fetch a match, but you have always had your own spark.

Fear desire hope still push us on toward the future.

It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.

And don't kid yourself; when you don't decide, that's a decision.

So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.

…and there, in the background, the sky’s sediment had sunk to a place where all the woe of the words ‘I am’ dissolved into blue peace. He said it. ‘The ocean.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.

Fascination with the psychic - or the psychological - can be a dangerous sidetrack on any spiritual path.

Integrity doesn't come in degrees: low, medium, or high. You either have integrity or you don't.

You know I, I just think, that ah, things have a way of working themselves out.