You earn brotherhood—the purest friendship, trust, love, whatever you want to call it—moment by moment through how you treat others.

t may not be the life you imagined, but it’s your life. You came here for a reason. Is it time for you to go and begin again?

Cause and effect are rarely directly related. Justice has a mind of her own.

Silence has built walls, walls that I attempt to break by pedaling faster, only to be imprisoned a hundred feet down the road.

I'm learning quickly, once you quit one thing, it gets easier and easier just to leave situations rather than deal with shit.

Questions from earlier circle like buzzards. Am I running away or moving forward?

The waves splash against my face, carrying a message: Welcome, you belong here.

To exist here, I’ll have to become skilled in saying no—an art in which I was once well accomplished, but one I no longer care to practice.

Nothing worse than someone who goes to the dance, is excited to dance, dances all night, and then complains all the next day about his feet being sore.

I never get used to the faces--wide-eyed and full of possibility--staring bad at me.

Even the best buzz wears off, and you wake up more trapped than the day before.

A willingness to let go of an old self and allow creative thoughts to remake a person into a better version of oneself requires an act of courage.

My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.

What is your name?” I asked.“Thorn.”“Thorn?”“If you touch me, you bleed.

I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence.

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Men die but an idea does not.

If I were capable of assisting someone, I would do it in a manner that would cause the person seeking assistance to work, so he assists himself.

The soul shares not the body's test.

it is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping it alive. Few slanders can stand the wear of silence.

The banquet is in the first bite.