Maybe you should kiss someone who is nice, or lick a rock, or both.

Every morning I wake up with a purpose and a smirk

You're using your headphones to drown out your mind

I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things.

I'm the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved

The piano is not firewood -- yet.

So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.

I've got a perfect body, 'cause my eyelashes catch my sweat

Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.

I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.

I don't really make records chronologically.

If you’re not afraid of working hard, self-reliance comes easy!

Forget about 'Going Viral' and 'Go Give Value'.

Duty is ours and events are God's.

Half the trouble in the world arises from men trying to anticipate their time and season, and the other half from their trying to prolong them.

Success is not a function of individual talent. It's the steady accumulation of advantages. It's bound up in so many other broader circumstantial, environmental, historical, and cultural factors.

I think I'm a better mother because of work, because I'm happy. If I wasn't working, I would just be waiting for the kids to come home every day, and living vicariously through their lives.

It's hard to give someone advice when you're an institution. I don't really put a lot of pressure on it - I'm just open to doing stuff that's challenging.

It is a fact that you project what you are.

Don't be sad! Because God sends hope in the most desperate moments. Don't forget, the heaviest rain comes out of the darkest clouds.

Think of the Republican Party as the opposition to the Democrats. It doesn't exist in California!