It would be great if teenagers could make movies. It's sad how some writers think they can write about stuff they don't understand.

When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.

You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.

Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me, amplified.

I was very depressed after breaking off my engagement with Johnny ten years ago. I was embarrassingly dramatic at the time, but you have to remember I was only 19 years old.

There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.

I've learned that it's OK to be flawed, that life can be messy, that some days you glide and some days you fall, but most important, that there are no secret answers out there.

You have good days and bad days, and depression's something that, you know, is always with you.

You can't pay enough money to... cure that feeling of being broken and confused.

I am not a person who can really sit around and think about regrets because with every bad experience that you have, there is weirdly something good that comes from it.

I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.

We have to remember that not every action taken to solve a problem will be free of unforeseen consequences. No matter how good our intentions.

Yet man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward.

If the hairs on my neck stand up while Im writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.

The key to handling problems and conflict within an organization is to keep the channels of communication wide open.

Some general officers should pay a stricter regard to truth than to call the depopulating other countries the service of their own.

Reth looked exasperated. “When is something ever not wrong in your life?” I frowned. “That’s my line.

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.

Things that Shane doesn't want on his grave: (1.) I thought it wasn't loaded. (2.) Hand me a match so I can check the gas tank. (3.) Killed over Ice Cream

Correct observation followed by meticulous deduction and the precise visualization of goals is vital to the success of any enterprise.

The first job of a leader is to define a vision for the organization...the capacity to translate vision into reality.