All this role model bullshit; you don't have any extra responsibilities because you made some good songs! Your only responsibility is to make good songs.

Everyone's always telling you to be humble. When was the last time someone told you to be great?

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

Even a broke clock is right twice a day

Life is 5% what happens, and 95% how you react.

This is my life homie, you decide yours

Believe in your flyness...conquer your shyness

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Everything I'm not makes me everything I am

You're not perfect, but you're not your mistakes.

You basically can say anything to someone on an email or text as long as you put LOL at the end.

At heart, we're all violent raging wolves, but in our actions we can be pacifists.

If you don't know your worth, if you don't know your value, if you don't know how fantabulous you are - it's going to be hard for other people to see it. Being appreciative of self is beauty to me.

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

You have to admit he's good looking," Bree pressed, leaning against my kitchen counter. "Of course I admit it. I'm not blind," I said, busily opening cans.

All my seams have meaning - they emphasize something about the body.

I'm kind of a recluse when it comes to going outside.

Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.

Why do our parents have the ability to make us feel like children even when our hair is graying and we have a mortgage that feels like a Third World debt? (135)

The simple solution for disappointment depression Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.