You don't have to follow anybody's conventions.

Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.

When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.

The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.

Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.

And as ridiculous as it may sound, sometimes all any of us needs in life is for someone to hold our hand and walk next to us.

When something is staring you in the face in your life and you see it with your own two eyes and feel it within your heart only a fool doesn't believe it to be true.

The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity.

I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent how I've lived.

Imagine a perfect world

Babbage had most of this system sketched out by 1837, but the first true computer to use this programmable architecture didn’t appear for more than a hundred years.

I have great respect for you - once you are dead, and gone

It is not wrong to be different. Sometimes it is hard, but it is not wrong.

Ain't no glory made from being dependable.

No matter how serious the trial, how deep the distress, how great the affliction, God will never desert us, He never has, and He never will.

Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.

I am a little man and this is a little town, but there must be a spark in little men that can burst into flame.

Always do what you like, do what you want, and try your best to be happy.

Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.