Some say that you know real love when you realise the only person in the world who can console you is the one who has hurt you.

It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. What scares you, is not your weaknesses, but your strengths.

You'll stop hurting when you stop hoping.

As long as you remember the person who loved you, and whom you still love, then you're making love endure.

She needs someone who will be everything for her: her friend, her boyfriend, her confidant, her lover and sometimes even her enemy.

When it comes to books and friends, it is best to have only a few but all good ones.

It's scary being loved. Because life is complicated and all too often it throws you off balance by sending you the right person at the wrong time.

You are your own refuge There is no other You cannot save another You can only save yourself.

It was a relationship with occasional moments of beauty, but one that had never found it's balance.

A miserable collection of little secrets, that's all any of us is.

Now he could say for sure that he'd never known a feeling stronger than that of being at one with another person - that rare feeling of not being alone anymore.

A personal brand, once local and temporal, is now global and forever. That’s the blessing and the curse of the internet with regards to your reputation.

I wish I was your favorite girl, I wish you thought I was the reason you are in the world, I wish I was your favorite smile, I wish the way I dressed was your favorite kind of style

I literally have meetings at eight o'clock in the morning, and I finish at nine o'clock at night. It sounds pathetic, but I don't even have time to go shopping.

If I'd known how many problems I was going to run into before I finished, I can't remember a single project I would have started.

It's only our story that keeps us from knowing that we always have everything we need.

Junkies are liars. They have to be professionally.

I feel some kind of duty to be really, really honest as a writer. The same is true of my songwriting.

Believe it or not, I want to keep growing my audience.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.