To be perfectly honest, it scared me a little. You get so used to seeing the same thing in the mirror every day you stop thinking about what you look like.

Everyone thought that things were getting back to normal. They had no idea that normal didn’t exist for me any more. Normal had been smashed on the rocks beneath the bridge.

It's too late.I chose life too late.

It’s amazing, the lies you can tell yourself. Even more amazing, the lies you can believe when you’re desperate enough.

Has this version of me been lurking there all along, somewhere deep below the surface, biding its time, waiting for its chance to make an appearance?

Everyone’s got secrets, Jem. It’s what makes people interesting.

To learn to die is to learn to live. Death is the giver of life.

Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone

Simple music is the hardest music to play and blues is simple music.

Kill them all and let God sort them out.

And we have a Fed that's doing political things. This Janet Yellen of the Fed. The Fed is doing political - by keeping the interest rates at this level.

Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world does love is commonly absence of poise, for it has to be amused.

We seek to sow life in the child rather than theories, to help him in his growth, mental and emotional as well as physical, and for that we must offer grand and lofty ideas to the human mind.

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

I believe that whatever your religious preference, there has to be a commitment to family because everything really does start there.

The worrying thing is there's so much latent hatred of the guy [Donald Trump] and this guy isn't even president yet.