You just go with your gut instinct, because your gut is smarter than your heart.

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching

As soon as I go into a Starbucks I take off my sunglasses. I want to be recognised and I want free coffee.

So people keep asking me what this badge is for... this badge makes me the sheriff, the sheriff of Emo town, so get your straight irons and eyeliner ready!

Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself and become a new person.

It's okay to love something a little too much,as long as it's real to you.

NOTHING is worth hurting yourself over. NOTHING is worth taking your life over, DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!

All your quirks and all your problems - even your depressions and your failures - that’s what makes you you.

Tears are words the heart can't express

Don't ever let the media tell you what your body is supposed look like. You're beautiful the way you are. Stay beautiful, keep it ugly.

Umgangsformen sind Formen, die zunehmend umgangen werden.

It wasn't supposed to happen like this. I was supposed to free him. I was supposed to save him. I was supposed to save everyone.

We can not begin to administer justice without understanding the concept of truth and mercy.

I'm of the opinion and quite certain that our 'personal histories' with God are meant to be well informed by the Scriptures

It is better to desire the things we have than to have the things we desire.

I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or if you were good in football.

My ideal picture of citizenship will always be an argument, not a sing-along.

Acting from the appropriateness of the heart, we are freed from the neediness of the mind.

But what I really am interested in is not the end of the world but everything which precedes it.

Life is very short... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do.