One day I was 17 years old and I ended up trying to commit suicide and I ended up in the hospital. As a teenager, that was a really scary thing.

When you hit rock bottom, you have nowhere to go but up.

At 3, I played an innocent game of doctor, minus the stethoscope and medicine bag.

To my abusers: I forgive you.

Those that are the hardest to love, need it the most.

When you get knocked down you get knocked down in Round 1 of life, there's Round 2.

My spiritual high naturally dissipated. At some point you've got to come out of the clouds and live real life. Again, it's just like falling in love. The feeling of euphoria is only temporary.

I really want to help people. I really want to give somebody that hope that they need to keep going.

It's hard to be vulnerable in front of the whole world because everyone's a critic.

I know some people need counseling but not everyone can afford it.

Oh my God ... YOU are real. Oh my God ... You ARE real. OH MY GOD ... You are REAL! Oh my God ... You're really real!

The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness.

Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca. (The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)

If a character dies, you get to do a big, juicy death scene. But the flip side is you're out of the sequel, which is where the real money is.

For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race.

If you eat one less candy bar or donut a day, you're doing your body some good.

You are truly endearing when you sleep. I attribute this to the exotic nature of seeing you in a state of silence. —Tybalt

I have faith, I believe in God and I've gotten through all the problems I had because of those three things: my faith, my hope and my belief in an eternal God.

The birthday of the Lord is the birthday of peace.

If you will show me the songs which a people or a community sing, then I will tell you the character of that community.

The United States wants to be part of the solution to its problems and not, in part, the maker of their problems.