Scott Fitzgerald was mortally afraid of lightning.

If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing.

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

And Carolina will be cheering on the beautiful daughter of Magda and Shalom Singer, the new Lady America Singer!

Knowledge come from looking around; wisdom comes from looking up.

Cricket is not illegal, for it is a manly game.

I always view my music like a city at night, like Atlanta. I view my music in lights. So Far Gone would be my experiences in Toronto at night.

The color of your skin is your uniform in this ultimate battle for the survival of the West.

It is strange how the presence of additional people can make you feel more alone.

Ours is the wild tumult of the unchained storm, the tumult of the army on the march, clashing its cymbals, rioting with excess of energy. Need we be ashamed of it?

It's just weird that indie rock heads and so on are connecting to my music.

The primordial fire of reality is going to burn through the hull of our little ego spaceship, and scatter us like stars.

I approach most things in life with a dangerous level of confidence to balance my generally low self-esteem.