You," he said, "are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.

History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is forever.

It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.

If leeches ate peaches instead of my blood, then I would be free to drink tea in the mud!

Nothing in my life has ever made me want to commit suicide more than people's reaction to my trying to commit suicide.

Oh, and I certainly don't suffer from schizophrenia. I quite enjoy it. And so do I.

Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it.

I only sleep with people I love, which is why I have insomnia.

Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops.

Once upon a time is now.

What if I'm an angel without wings to take me home?

Let go of how you perceive others and how others perceive you.

An illusion is when everyone is in on the joke, a delusion is when you are the joke.

The perfect life is the combination of great moments and bad ones, and under that point of view, my life is fantastic, because I've certainly hit more than one bump.

Successful people understand that you don't need to make things complicated.

...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.

God is to be praised with the voice, and the heart should go therewith in holy exultation.

When we know deep down that we're acting with integrity despite impulses to do otherwise, we feel gates of higher energy and inspiration open inside of us.

A leader can transform an army of frightened people into fearless people.

I should be extremely sorry to find that in a fictitious proceeding, instituted for the more easy attaining of justice, different rules were to obtain in the different Courts.

Wherever I go people recognize me, call my name, cheer for me. But there are names no one cares to remember, that no one cheers for: the 805 million people suffering from hunger in the world today.