“A rose looks grey at midnight, but the flame is just asleep. And steel is strong because it knows the hammer and white heat.”

All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate. I choose love.

I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It’s still my symbol of rebellion — against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others’ ideas.

Life is rough so you gotta be tough.

I don’t give up because I don’t give up. I don’t believe in it.

You miss a lot of opportunities by making mistakes, but that’s part of it: knowing that you’re not shut out forever, and that there’s a goal you still can reach.

I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on.

The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars.

I love the freedoms we got in this country, I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.

Happiness is being at peace, being with loved ones, being comfortable but most of all, it’s having those loved ones.

I’m not really concerned about boundaries. I just follow my conscience and my heart. Follow your heart. That’s what I do. Compassion is something I have a lot of, because I’ve been through a lot of pain in my life. Anybody who has suffered a lot of pain has a lot of compassion.

The ones that you’re calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while.

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love positivity and gratitude that things aren’t worse or hate negativity and bitterness that things aren’t better. I choose love positivity and gratitude that things aren’t worse.

I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.

The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about.