I had aspirations to do different things with my life. I wanted to play soccer. I wanted to be a lawyer. Serendipity.

Just because today is a terrible day doesn't mean tomorrow might not be the best day of your entire life. You just have to wake up and get there

Always bet on yourself, no matter what the odds are. It means more to be in the race than watching the victory lap from the stands.

The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.

Music never leaves you alone, and punk rock will always be there when nothing else will.

Everyone you idolize wakes up scared to be themselves sometimes.

And there are people that will stand in your corner and convince you to stand up for another round no matter what.

Our brains may lie to us, but our hearts never do.

Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people.

It takes knowledge to know something. It takes guts to do what you know.

Being surrounded by six Brendons is so not fun.

This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.

If you want to be strong, smile! He who can smile, even when he's so sad that he wants to die, when it's so painful that he wants to give it all up and run away, is the one who becomes strong.

I don't know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage.

Objects are made to be completed by the human mind.

It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have an interest in your enterprise.

Use the Day of Atonement not to pray for the dead but to act for the living, to rescue those about to die.

What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.

People don't realize the limitations of 200 words, and the way they get chiselled down into a song that has to be sung.

The big question is: When will the term structure of interest rates change? That's the question to be worried about.

I don't want to be one of those guys that you see who made $4 million, invested $3.5 million, and now you work at Wendy's.