Or what man is there of you whom if his son ask bread will he give him a stone?

One of my favorite quotes ever was from Slash from Guns and Roses and he said 'to be truly iconic, you need to be able to recognized in a silhouette'

If clouds are blocking the sun, there will always be a silver lining that reminds me to keep on trying.

Take criticism, smash it into dust. Add color and use it to paint breathtaking images of unicorns frolicking through endless fields of greatness.

Life's too short to drink crappy coffee and cry over boys who don't care.

I think it's perfectly acceptable and rather admirable to be moderately delusional

Never take a person away from the music they love.

If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.

I'm just tired; I just want the world to be quiet for a bit.

There's a lot that's happened in my life that maybe I didn't want to happen, but I suppose it's led me to exactly where I am now.

I'd kill myself without music. Immediately. Life is pointless without music for me.

They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold.

Love is about all the changes you make, and not just three small words

The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do.

Things are opaque to us, and we are opaque to ourselves.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

The question is not how to survive, but how to thrive with passion, compassion, humor and style.

Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon another.