Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. And if I should die before I awake, I pray the popular attend my wake.

If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.

We are often so distracted by the internal war between what we want to do and what we have to do that we overlook what we need to do.

You did what your heart told you to do,' Brain complimented. 'It is what leaders, not followers, do.

friends are like stars. You do not see all the time, but you know they are there

Breaking free, or not, is usually determined by whether you want to get somewhere slowly or nowhere fast.

And though the symptons of lovesickness may be many, they all share a single cause and single cure: you.

If you want sympathy, look for a friend, but if you want honesty, an enemy might be the best friend you ever had.

Talk is cheap. If it wasn't, people might not toss around 'I love you' like a marked-down phrase in a sales bin.

Life sucks, then you die. Then it sucks again.

She was a dead girl having the worst panic attack shed ever had. Not because she was afraid of dying, but because she knew that she would never live again.

… real life hardly ever unfolds the way we’d like it to, not like in a story.

What a gulf between the self which experiences and the self which describes experience.

Avoid prologues: they can be ­annoying, especially a prologue ­following an introduction that comes after a foreword.

Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!

I think, irrespective of your race, everybody has moments in life where they don't fit in, or where they try to puzzle through who they really are or to find the courage of their convictions.

I packed coffee once when I lived in Australia, and I just remember going around every day with coffee up my nose and in my ears.

Nothing can duplicate the sheer power and feeling you get from standing in front of your amp and bashing on your guitar.

I find that musically, looking back, I have learned much more from those relationships, people I have bumped into that I have admired, that's the way I feel musically I have learned most in life.

Action without study fatal. Study without action is futile.

All the creativity books in the world aren’t going to help you if you’re unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas.