The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Often, love is a tangled web of lies that only a broken heart would weave. Seldom is dishonesty the whole person, rather it's the pain.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.

A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart.

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.

The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.

When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?

The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most.

When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.

If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.

Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that's the truth.

The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

When you are isolated and obscured, your achievements may be wonderful but unknown.

His closeness makes my heart beat faster, my skin tingle, my body want things it doesn't even know.

The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.

Anyone can sit down and write some boring artistic song. Pop music is the hardest [stuff] to write.

Love what you do and who you truly are. Be willing to die for it. If you are true to yourself, you can never go wrong

The only advantage I have found in being Jewish is that I can be openly anti-Semitic.

I'd always been quite quiet growing up, and singing was a way of having a voice.

You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.