We need to boost each other to get to the top. It is much more effective than stepping on each other.

The moment you put someone on a pedestal they will look down upon you. The trick is respecting each other equally.

Someone is always going to try to knock you down and take your place. It is up to you to fight for what you want.

I've never been good at sharing my toys.

Here is how you know if it is love or lust. Push them in front of a bus. If you jump in the way and save them it is love.

Always follow your dreams, even if they lead you down a few dark alleys.

Lust is the difference between loving someone and being in love with someone.

If you don't believe in yourself, why should anyone else?

Things spoken can be forgotten and forgiven, but the written word has the power to change the course of history, to alter our lives.

Love will hurt. If it doesn't hurt you are not doing it right. To truly love someone you must open yourself up to the pain that would be losing them.

Here we don't pray for the weak, we prey on the weak.

Does bad luck come in 3's...or is it multiples of 3?

You are the one star I wish upon nightly, praying your glory will fall from the heavens and land in my undeserving arms.

Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.

It's not a little thing to lose your identification and who you believe yourself to be.

We can’t talk about mass incarceration at this point without talking about women.

Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.

I think the book you always like best is the one you're about to write.

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.

Pop music - what used to be known as rock music, a loud novelty - can be something more than a pointless, artificial diversion.

To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself.