The truth is when I went to graduate school I would've said I was among the least talented of the students, I was certainly the least smart, or less educated. But I worked very hard.

A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.

Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.

Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon.

The words and sentences you take into your body from books are no less sacred and healing than communion. Surely at least one such person lives in your zip code.

In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.

I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer.

When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.

I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!

I believe in God, but even if you don't, you can believe in a self, the person who is innately who you are. Once you fully become that person, then everything you do will be blessed.

Press button woman was there for himFor whatever he was wanting.No demand was too bigPress button woman knew her gig.

Art gives people a reason to be alive.

There is no happiness, there is no liberty, there is no enjoyment of life, unless a man can say, when he rises in the morning, I shall be subject to the decision of no unwise judge today.

Foolishness and criticism are so apt, do so naturally go together!

The good displeases us when we are not up to it.

That is definitely the heart and soul of Rise Against — that passion to inspire change for the better.

Knowing lots of answers but being a millisecond slow on the buzzer is indeed very frustrating.

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that

You would think such a day would tremble to begin . . .

I was never really happy until I became 'Doctor Who'.