To me, Columbine is just as awful as Vietnam and it's just as awful as anything else.

Black eyeliner. It’s standard. It’s all you need. It just makes the world a better place.

You get depressed because you know that you're not what you should be.

You have to be saved to get into heaven....you only have to be you to get into hell.

If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.

Music is the strongest form of magic.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

The imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you.

People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves that we've got sitcoms with canned laughter that lets you know when to laugh if you're too stupid to know when the joke is.

I don't think we should ever regret anything we do. I think we have to accept the consequences and you learn from your mistakes, and that's how you grow as a person

I've watched goldfish make babies, and ants execute earwigs. I've seen a fly deliver live young while having its head eaten by a mantis. And I had a golden retriever behave like one.

Do you ever go back?"Ruthann nods, "When I need to remember where I came from, or where I'm headed.

People need to look at wildlife conservation in its totality. As soon as you lose the apex predator, it has harmful consequences right down the food chain.

The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it

A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.

God, as I use the word, is another name for what is. I always know God's intention: It's exactly what is in every moment.

A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.

We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around.

I think that once the nuclear alternative happens, it's over. At the same time, we have to be prepared.

Strong minds talk about ideas; weak minds talk about people.