Every path is the right path. Everything could've been anything else. And it would have just as much meaning.

It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.

It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.

Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead.

Read deeply. Stay open. Continue to wonder.

The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.

We do not trust educated people and rarely, alas, produce them, for we do not trust the independence of mind which alone makes a genuine education possible.

When I was in school the teachers told me practice makes perfect

She doesn't need your money. Even a penniless fool like you can make her fall in love with you. That's just miracle.

That's the problem with best friends. Sometimes they know you better than you know yourself.

It was a scary thought. A man could be surrounded by poetry reading and not know it.

If I'm not telling you something, it's for a reason. Just because you trust me, it doesn't mean I have to automatically trust you. Trust doesn't work like that.

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar a custom which is still continued.

There is no place to hide but in the blood of the Lamb.

I honestly think there's people who just perceive me different.

Leave my image alone... I will behave as I think I should and I will not change anything.

Some people like a harsh teacher. They feel the demands make them learn more quickly. Some like a gentle teacher because they feel that makes them learn more quickly.

Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality!

I'm not trying to say that I'm sick of Supernatural in any way, nor am I sick of my character, because he changes all the time; it's just nice to do something different.

I don't necessarily need Hollywood.

Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung.