It takes knowledge to know something. It takes guts to do what you know.

Just because today is a terrible day doesn't mean tomorrow might not be the best day of your entire life. You just have to wake up and get there

Always bet on yourself, no matter what the odds are. It means more to be in the race than watching the victory lap from the stands.

The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.

Music never leaves you alone, and punk rock will always be there when nothing else will.

Everyone you idolize wakes up scared to be themselves sometimes.

And there are people that will stand in your corner and convince you to stand up for another round no matter what.

Our brains may lie to us, but our hearts never do.

Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people.

Being surrounded by six Brendons is so not fun.

We are dreamers. We worship love, we hope against hope and toss practicality out the window.

As we become more mature in faith, learning to trust that God is capable of all things, we will see God as bigger and bigger every time we encounter Him.

An air of mystery closed around the details of his early life. I didn't pry. He had been through hell and had a right to his secrets.

Health is more than the absence of disease. Health is about jobs and employment, education, the environment, and all of those things that go into making us healthy.

Where is it written that one should only care about big things?

Age cannot wither her nor custom stale her infinite variety other women cloy the appetites they feed but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

You don't get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?

I'm someone who loves to enjoy life and tries to focus on real things and real friendships. That's why I live very simply.

It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not real friendship.

Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered with, the alarm runs out before the hour.

I operate under the assumption that the mass media will never be accurate. ... It operates with the objective to simplify and exaggerate, which is exactly what Walt Disney told his cartoonists.