Melancholy is kind of sweet sometimes, I think. It's not a negative thing. It's not a mean thing. It's just something that happens in life, like autumn.

People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.

Alcohol is really just the liquid version of Photoshop.

Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you're donating blood.

Friendship is so weird. You just pick a human you've met and you're like, 'Yep, I like this one,' and you just do stuff with them.

I'm a nut, but not just a nut.

Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it.

You know how funerals are not for the dead, they’re for the living? Bachelor parties are not for the groom, they’re for the uncommitted.

You can tell how boring a person is by the lack of fear in their eyes when someone is flipping through photos on their phone.

Just beat my record for most consecutive days without dying.

The secret is to have a sense of yourself, your real self, your unique self. And not just once in a while, or once a day, but all through the day, the week and life.

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

I loved you when I was eight. I loved you when I was twelve. I loved you when I was twenty, and I... I love you now.

We need to fight for free education and defund the prisons

Oh, Mr. Thornton, I am not good enough!' 'Not good enough! Don't mock my own deep feeling of unworthiness.

It only took me two weeks to build the first version of Facebook because I had so much stuff before then.

Lies and promises are necessary but not sufficient.

I love chocolate. I love chocolate ice cream. I love chocolate candy. The darker the better.

Those people who think only of themselves, are hopelessly uneducated. They are not educated, no matter how instructed they may be.

Everyone has a conflict inside of them - the conflict between what you should do and what you want to do.

Swing will never sound as good as it did in the '40s.