Your beauty is yours, believe it. Do not rely on someone else to approve it.

The love of one individual is far more powerful than the hate of one million.

Are you willing to forgo your salvation for a cause which seems righteous?

It's not about people believing the story. It's about you knowing and holding it to be true.

Forgiveness is a selfless gift of love to others.

No one is ever alone and silence does not equate defeat.

Fighting the good fight is not as easy when you’re fighting alone.

Whichever season you’re in, rejoice and celebrate your life as you might not experience it twice.

Happiness is found within Oneself. It can't be accessed through People or Things.

Hate is a self-destructive illness.

In the absence of uplifting words, Silence is the best choice.

There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die.

I wish for adventure.I wish to matter.I wish for a home.

Happiness is the most magical thing in this world the amount of which remains the same, even after distributing it amongst innumerable unhappy people.

Life in itself has no meaning. Life is an opportunity to create meaning.

I've gotten more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Nobody considers a covers record an album.

Change begins within: the world is as you are.

Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.

... Their power to see environments as they really are.

I never was strutting through the hallways like, "Yeah, I'm a singer/songwriter." That's never a cool thing to do - to be the brooding guy.