It was my duty as a mother to invade your privacy and search your room. I'm just glad you weren't hiding an illegal drug.

I didn't let what I wanted to do become a made up memory that I looked back on years down the road and wished it was real.

Honestly, if I stay on this gruelling path, I'm going to end up as another suicide statistic.

I must have appeared like a real bad boy in Christy's eyes. Well, at least a bad boy by home and away standards.

It wasn't a glorious or grand act of misadventure but it was a start. It wasn't what I should have done but it was what I truly wanted to do.

A fight needs at least two fighters. Sometimes you can win straight away by not fighting.

Someone who lives vicariously will never be truly happy because they're not happy with themselves.

If you're not happy with yourself, how can you even begin to figure out if another person makes you happy, annoyed, angry, sad and so on.

This is your chance. Are you going to cower and make excuses or are you going to do what you really want to do?

It seemed, at that point, my greed and cunningness were being rewarded.

She'd been fed anti-consumerist bullshit by her parents but didn't understand simple economics.

Perception meets you at the intersection of your beliefs and reality.

We are all equal. The unlike of choices is what distinguishes us from each other.

The moon was reigning over their world, glowing its full splendor to all those willing to look up.

Only those who seek within, get to discover their true unconditional happiness.

who cares about all the problems and barriers, nothing matters but the Spectacular Now.

All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, "I am the way.

Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?

What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife?

I want my recipes to be clever examples of a bigger story, a celebration of resource responsibility and spending with purpose.

And thus we rust Life's iron chain Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep, And some men make no moan: But God's eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone