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.

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.

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.

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

We do not fall in love with the package of the person, we fall in love with the inside of a person.

When you get to a certain age, the work begins to thin out.

I have no role models. Many heroes. I have an enormous capacity for hero worship.

When you sit for an hour and a half in front of somebody, he or she shows about twenty faces. And so it's this crazy chase of, Which face? Which one is the one?

... when there is a war the years are longer that is to say the days are longer the months are longer the years are much longer but the weeks are shorter that is what makes a war.

You are God's dream with skin on

Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.

I'm kind of a hermit. Left to my own devices, I won't submerge myself in anything further afield than the driveway.

The first principle of economic symmetry: building the economic power to consume simultaneously with the industrial power to produce.

I hope to be back in management in the next future