Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people.

Just because today is a terrible day doesn't mean tomorrow might not be the best day of your entire life. You just have to wake up and get there

Always bet on yourself, no matter what the odds are. It means more to be in the race than watching the victory lap from the stands.

The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.

Music never leaves you alone, and punk rock will always be there when nothing else will.

Everyone you idolize wakes up scared to be themselves sometimes.

And there are people that will stand in your corner and convince you to stand up for another round no matter what.

Our brains may lie to us, but our hearts never do.

It takes knowledge to know something. It takes guts to do what you know.

Being surrounded by six Brendons is so not fun.

We are dreamers. We worship love, we hope against hope and toss practicality out the window.

But if you're gonna dine with them cannibalsSooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .

The more you know, the more you yearn for knowledge.

Letter-writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.

It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.

All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.

Walking into a room filled with people you don't know but who know you brings out your worst vulnerabilities.

As a human being, I'm work in process.

I will follow Osama bin Laden to the gates of hell.

Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.