Whether you're going through fear, whether you're going through pain, or whether you're going through anything, love is the best healer and the most powerful thing in the world.

We're not here for a long time, we're here for a good time / Reach For the Sky, 'cause tomorrow may never come.

Best things in life aren't things.

I got tattoos for purely antisocial reasons, and now people do it for social acceptance. I miss the individualism.

When I see everyone doing the same thing, I want to do the opposite.

Stop contemplating and start celebratingYeah, you gotta live before you die.

I think you never want to limit yourself to one style of anything. Why put those limitations on yourself?

I do know that love, whether you're giving it or receiving it, or both, it is the ultimate healer.

No one would barbecue their family dog. Why is a cow or a pig or a chicken different?

I feel that if you're in the public eye in any way that you do have a little bit of influence on people.

As time goes on you are given responsibility and other things to deal with. You become a husband and a father and there's another shirt of stuff.

This thing I am feeling, I’m almost certain, is the closest I’ll ever come to standing somewhere in between truth and reconciliation.

If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems

Struggles are inevitable, just as much as pain.

I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more you write about it, the more you travel into it, and you see it from within.

Fares are higher [and] people don't travel as much. If they don't do that, it doesn't have the trickle down effect into the economy and the other sectors.

I did drop out of school.

I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them.

[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

As I have always held it a crime to anticipate evils, I will believe it a good comfortable road until I am compelled to believe differently.

What a different story men would have to tell if only they would adopt a DEFINITE PURPOSE, and stand by that purpose until it had time to become an all-consuming obsession!