The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

What if reality is nothing but some disease?

Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

The fate of the country... does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.

American [public] schools are failing because they are organized according to a bureaucratic, monopolistic model; their organizing principle is basically the same as that of a socialist economy.

The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.

The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.

I don't want my children to be what I want them to be. I want them to become everything God created them to be.

Everybody loves you because you are brilliantly awkward.

Allah loves moderation and hates extravagance and excess.

My high school experience was pretty good, but my middle school experience was god awful. It was horrible. I got picked on like no tomorrow.