I can’t tell you anything about yourself you don’t already know…WAIT…unless you don’t know you’re an incredibly freaking amazing person with boundless gifts to share…then I can tell you that.

There's just as much wisdom in knowing when to keep quiet as there is in knowing when to speak up. Use your voice wisely.

In my experience, it is always worth it to find the love that lives inside you. No matter how deep you have to dig sometimes.

Give people a chance.

Shit works out.

A happiness trick:do more things that make you happy, and you'll be happy more often.

There is absolutely no point in comparing ourselves to others. Everyone brings to the world exactly what they are meant to bring, and in doing so touches exactly who they are meant to touch.

No one determines your truth but you.You can’t paint your own self-portrait with someone else’s hand.

I finally stopped seeking in others everything I could only find in myself.

We can’t heal what we refuse to acknowledge.

I can’t control my feelings, but I’m learning to have a say in how much my feelings control me.

I seek to be moved, my imagination reborn.Let me feast on poems that feed my hunger.

You create the action, the chances, the opportunities, the wealth, the happiness, the success, the rhythm, the speed, you control all the outcomes in your life!

It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.

When the clock strikes 2, 3, and 4, if the band slows down we'll yell for more.

...as soon as the war was over, they had to justify what was done.

Back in my day, I would probe by hand. Now you can get commercial software that does the job for you.

I am usually always singing about the same god damn person so I will love him forever but you know, it's all good. It's all good!

And she finds it difficult to believe—that a person would love her even when she isn't trying. Trying to figure out what other people need, trying to be worthy.

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

Alison Lohman is an amazing actress. I was so proud to work with her.