Now that I know where this life is going, it's time to decide how I'll get there.

The stupid thing about anger is how people hurt you and then you let them keep hurting you by being angry about how they originally hurt you. It’s a vicious cycle.

No one can be everything you want them to be.

I'd rather be weird and happy than normal and miserable.

This body is yours. It is your home. The keeper of your soul. The resting place of your spirit. No one can ever take that away.

It’s unbelievable how you can affect someone else so deeply and never know.

If you see someone being bullied, make it stop. Why is that so hard for us to do?

My thing is that I'm in love with love. Actually, I'm in love with the possibility of true love. Which could be considered a major problem.

Sometimes in the midst of all your boy drama, you just need a cupcake.

Because if you take a risk, you just might find what you're looking for.

I want revenge, but I don't want to screw up my karma.

I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with Buddha, but only because he wouldn't want it.

The more we can embrace failure, the more we will be able to open to it and the more confident and resilient we will become.

The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

We feel pretty comfortable making music but beyond that there have been other things to take into account, including promotion, marketing, airplay.

Though we claim to believe the whole of Scripture, in practice we frequently deny much of it by ignoring it.

Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.

Sunday, that day so tedious to the triflers of earth, so full of beautiful reposes of calmness and strength for the earnest and heavenly minded.

We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict things—and we aren’t very good at it.

A troop surge in Baghdad would put more American troops at risk to address a problem that is not a military problem.