People can be cruelest to those they love.

Love was like the waves in the sea, gentle and good sometimes, rough and terrible at others, but that it was endless and stronger than the sky and earth and everything in between.

You can't be miserable when you're running. It's such a simple and pure way to feel alive.

We all have the potential to do terrible things. But we also have the potential to overcome our mistakes.

How do you restart something that had never been turned off?

Because people are more than emotions. People have thoughts and reasons for doing things.

Fear is dangerous. It sparks violence much faster than anger.

An oath is a promise-and a promise can be made regardless of feeling.

If there was no fear, how could there be comfort? Or courage?

A good dream was something you clung to until the last moment before waking.

And it's always better, isn't it, when you discover answers on your own?

Let this hell be our heaven.

In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.

a person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it

Is that weird, taking my Louis Vuitton bag camping?

I have no phobias. Phobias are irrational. My fears are rational and CAREFULLY CULTIVATED, like roses.

I do things I don't know how to do in order to learn how to do them.

If you took away publicists and things and people spoke for themselves, then they'd have to be responsible for their words.

I was happiest, frankly, when I had a day job and then I went and was in my band that I never, ever had dreams of making money, ever.

Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.

There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but arises from tenderness and hangs upon reflection.