Overbearing mothers usually give way to one of two things in their children: rebellion or passivity. In your case, the latter.

I think it's hard for you to fall in love because you like control, and you can't control what another person does or feels, so you keep all your cards.

I was just a flat line until he came along. And maybe now I'm hurting. But isn't that what love is supposed to do? Make you feel, make you brave, make you look at yourself more carefully?

Humans seek connection above all else, and we are willing to destroy things to attain it.

You shouldn't have to convince anyone to choose you. There is no real choice in love.

That's the most pathetic part of being a human, the emotions you don't ask for or want, they just rush you anyway.

We think we can control our lives, but our lives control us. And everything that touches our lives controls us. People have less power than they think they do. It's just the reactions we control.

We are at that age that balances between independence and conferring with your friends about every miniscule decision you make. I've never liked that part of adolescence.

Don't make someone burn, and then try to douse the flames with the things you should have done. Those regrets are gasoline not water.

Boldness be my friend.

Let's recreate the equivalent of the Met Ball in Europe and, rather than for the museum, give the money to environmental causes.

I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.

It is impossible for human nature to believe that money is not there. It seems so much more likely that the money is there and only needs bawling for.

Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.

I want to be a role model.

So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair that ever since in love's embraces met -- Adam, the goodliest man of men since born his sons; the fairest of her daughters Eve.

There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.

The US government should be the champion for the internet, not a threat. They need to be much more transparent about what they're doing, or otherwise people will believe the worst.

If you want to live like a Republican, vote like a Democrat.