We get to choose who we let into our weird little worlds.

Some people can't believe in themselves until someone else believes in them first.

Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. 'Stop thinking', swig, 'empty your head', swig, 'now, seriously empty your head'.

Darkness will come knocking. It will offer everything you never had. But its gift is just a cheap knockoff of something it cannot be. Never accept the hand of the Beast.

I told myself a thousand times every single day I needed to forget you. I forgot to forget, and I forgot what I told myself" From "The Jasmine Tree: Love in the time of revolutions

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

I've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that's just wrong.

Love is like a roller coaster. When it's good, you don't want to stop and when it's not... you want to throw up.

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.

A lot of people have so many issues like depression, obesity or chronic illness that has to do with gut health.

Poetry offers the fairest hope of restoring our lost unity of mind.

We are not saved by good works; we are saved for good works. The Christian lifestyle is to be a lifestyle of goodness.