My father had to go to work, I used to think he was a jerk. I didn't know his heart was broken, and not another word was spoken.

I don't care if you hate me or love me, as long as I make you think.

With every breath, I'm deeper in you.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

I always acted like a star long before I was one.

Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.

Even small waves make it to shore. Use the potential you have through intention and action and enjoy your journey.

Think different does not mean to think out of the box. It means to question what the significance of a box is?

Infectious diseases have become less prominent as causes of death and disability in regions of improved sanitation and adequate supplies of antibiotics.

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.

The [president] has no particle of spiritual jurisdiction. . . .

There are some days when no matter what I say it feels like I'm far away in another country & whoever is doing the translating has had far too much to drink.

I do swear a lot, but the advantage is that having played abroad, I can choose a different language from the referee's.

As a parent, I don't really want my child to know about all this horrible violence that people seem to be wanting to tell them every time they go to buy some candy.

A harvest mouse goes scampering by, With silver claws and silver eye; And moveless fish in the water gleam, By silver reeds in a silver stream.

Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level.