Even as the words came out of my mouth, my heart was dying a million deaths.

It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.

As long as a person is breathing, there is hope for them.

Sometimes, out of really horrible things come really beautiful things.

I would have to say the person with whom I am most in love is definitely my son, Everly Bear. Although I'm his dad, I'm also his friend.

I had not had any drugs for 5 years but then I relapsed again. I have also smoked nearly everything. Every day it was a battle to recover, which I fought for my son and myself.

My days are whatever I want them to be. I don't have to go worry about chasing some chemical to make me feel OK for a minute, and then make me feel worse.

Every true artist is at war with the world.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

Just the kind of girl I liked—the weirdo in the bunch.

To be 26 years old and lose your left heart ventricle was probably the most dramatic thing that's ever happened to me in my life...

I'd sell my soul to have you. In my whole life, you'll always be what I wanted most."~ Hardy Cates

I have no regrets. Every experience is the wrong-path is chance to turn to right route for the ultimate travel to the destined-land.

But you are a different sort of girl. Not at all what I expected you to be. And this is a different sort of time. And so I am hopeful for all the things you may yet find.

Anger does a man more hurt than that which made him angry.

The demon of pride was born with us; and it will not die one hour before us.

I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.

The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.

Our human nature is profoundly phototropic. Men obey their deepest instincts when they hold fast to light.

To understand theory is not enough. Much practice is necessary.

Politics is the science of urgencies.