“Find what you are afraid of, face it, and then you won’t be afraid of it anymore.”

The imagination is precious. Don’t lose it. Don’t lose the child in you.

The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today’s youth.

Haters call me bitch, call me faggot, call me whitey, but I am something you could never be.

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

Is adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults?

There’s no time to discriminate, hate every motherfucker that’s in your way.

The seeds of who I am now had been planted. Fools aren’t born, I wrote in my notebook one day during ethics class. They are watered and grown like weeds by institutions such as Christianity.

Whatever doesn’t kill you, it’s gonna leave a scar.

Most of the world’s problems could be avoided if people just said what they fucking meant.

Not only are love and hate such closely related emotions, but it’s a lot easier to hate someone you’ve cared about than someone you never have.

I was becoming the cold, emotionally crippled monster I always wanted to be, and I wasn’t so sure I liked it. But it was too late. The metamorphosis was already well under way.

When someone was willing to drown with me, I really didn’t want to drown anymore.

Hello world and hello universe. Thank you all very much.

I never said to be like me, I say be yourself and make a difference.

Art should never be an answer but a question.

In the end we’re all Jerry Springer guests, really, we just haven’t been on the show,

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.

Don’t be afraid. Be the kind of person your mother warned you about.

If you’re afraid to die you won’t be able to live.

Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.

I say what I think. I’m a real person, not some manufactured pop tart who’s afraid to step out of the hotel room. I am flawed. I swear I have the occasional cocktail, I pick my nose and I fart. I’m not running for any presidential campaign at the moment. I’m a sassy girl.

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.

The baby bat Screamed out in fright, turn on the dark, I’m afraid of the light.

The art of concentration is a continual letting go. We let go of what is inessential or distracting. We let go of a thought or a feeling, not because we are afraid of it or because we can’t bear to acknowledge it as a part of our experience; but, because it is UNNECESSARY.