The Worst part of acting like a jerk isn't when you're doing it. Its when you realize you were.

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.

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

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

Being surrounded by six Brendons is so not fun.

He was abominable...and the most alluring, tortured soul I'd ever met.

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut

I'm really into tall boots. I just got some new ones from Michael Kors that have these little gold studs. I have Valentino ones that I really love. Real, real tall boots!

If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you're half-way to a dictatorship.

I've put myself in this position where I haven't set myself up with a Plan B. I don't have a safety net; it's all in.

It must be sad to outlive aught we love.

Money cannot buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.

It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.

The plundering of the human spirit by the market place is paralleled by the plundering of the earth by capital.

... the state is not absolute, and loyalty to the state cannot be absolute.