What doesn't kill you only makes your book longer.

It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.

As long as a person is breathing, there is hope for them.

Sometimes, out of really horrible things come really beautiful things.

I would have to say the person with whom I am most in love is definitely my son, Everly Bear. Although I'm his dad, I'm also his friend.

I had not had any drugs for 5 years but then I relapsed again. I have also smoked nearly everything. Every day it was a battle to recover, which I fought for my son and myself.

My days are whatever I want them to be. I don't have to go worry about chasing some chemical to make me feel OK for a minute, and then make me feel worse.

Every true artist is at war with the world.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

Just the kind of girl I liked—the weirdo in the bunch.

To be 26 years old and lose your left heart ventricle was probably the most dramatic thing that's ever happened to me in my life...

the world is better withoutthem.only the plants and the animals aretrue comrades.I drink to them and withthem.

To disobey God’s law is to forfeit your relationship with him

There is a choice you have to make in everything you do. So keep in mind that in the end, the choice you make, makes you.

I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.

Religion may in most of its forms be defined as the belief that the gods are on the side of the government.

All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.

Life should imitate romance literature far more often.

So much better to travel than to arrive.

If you can solve your problem, what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, what is the use of worrying.

To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.