We are dreamers. We worship love, we hope against hope and toss practicality out the window.

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.

I lived in Paris for six months when I was sixteen. It was a fend-for-yourself environment.

Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

The only way you learn is by failure.

Truth grew in my mind like a fungus, and though I tried to sleep it out, there was no resisting the epiphanies.

A city is like a family portrait - you don't tear it up if you don't like your uncle's nose.

I work on all parts of my painting at once, improving it very gently until I find that the effect is complete.

Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine.

I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life.

I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept

Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government.