When his flame falls, my lightning rises, and so on.

I fear being alone more than anything else. So why do I do this? Why do I push away the people I love? What is so very wrong with me?I don’t know.And I don’t know how to make it stop.

I do not fear pain.

I'm starting to think you like prisons, " "And that you have the worst taste in men.

No heart can be truly understood. Not even your own.

While we are together, I will never suffer a prison again.

Attend to your own fate.

No one is born a monster. But I wish some people were. It would make it easier to hate them, to kill them, to forget their dead faces.

One day he will leave, or die, or betray me like so many others have. One day, he will hurt me.

I must freeze my heart to the one person who insists on setting it ablaze.

Lightning has no mercy.

If people don't want you to question something, that probably means you should question it.

Before too long I was playing badly out in some bars around Memphis, but as soon as I learned a few chords I started writing my own stuff.

I'm the best promoter in the world because I haven't taken a day off work since I left the penitentiary, and because I have read all the great philosophers like St. Thomas Aquinine.

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

Leaders need the courage to acknowledge when something isn't working.

Manchester United will always be a competitor, just because of the very size of them.

Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.

Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich.

I just feel that getting out there physically and protecting New York, putting my arms around everyone and protecting them... to see this happen to our city and our community.

truth is a letter from courage!