Stop congregating in the valley just because an echo sounds good when it agrees with itself.

The future gets no say in who we are.

Pretend – inside your skin – you've got a friend, who's willing to give you everything you ever wanted in exchange for all you've ever been.

Stop inviting walls into wide open spaces.

What paper planes and empty seats most have in common is that they are best made by children still learning how to ride things out.

Hearts don't break, y'all. They bruise and get better.

I am standing like shoe polish on an overstocked shelf hoping that one day someone will pick me to make things better.

If you've never been rocked back by the presence of purpose this poem is too soon for you. Return to your mediocrity, plug it into an amplifier and rethink yourself.

The first time my town saw the sky it sucker-punched us in the throat, left us breathless, said, I'm gonna keep you awake some nights without touching you. You'll make it up, the pain, you always do.

If I didn't have so much of this life all wrong I would have gotten it right by now.

You are the home I point to that lives in my chest.

Don't sell the warmer for an air conditioner just because its summer, for in winter, you will have to do the reverse.

Speak of love with others. Remind each other of your spiritual purpose

I appreciate your applause, but I don't do it for applause. I do it for cash, it's much better.

I never trust anything that can be captured in 2 takes.

The readiness to praise others indicates a desire for excellence and perhaps an ability to realize it.

Labor never quits. We never give up the fight - no matter how tough the odds, no matter how long it takes.

It should be remembered that the foundation of the social contract is property; and its first condition, that every one should be maintained in the peaceful possession of what belongs to him.

One of the most difficult things for any artist to do is create a world that looks both completely alien yet real and possible.

I think it's good to be passionate, and I think it's even good to be obsessed about a show. Why not? I think it's great!

My sister started acting professionally when she was twelve, but I wanted to go to college first