“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”

“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”

“I am a part of all that I have met.”

“I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself.”

“There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.”

“The bond forged between us was not one that could be broken by absence, distance, or time. And no matter how much more special or beautiful or brilliant or perfect than me he...

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

“Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts”

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

“But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.”

“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination

“If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.”

“At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.”

“There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart.”

“When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”

“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”

“That's why when major badasses greet each other in movies, they don't say anything, they just nod. The nod means, 'I' am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass,'...

“Passion is passion. It's the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it doesn't matter where it's directed...It can be coins or sports or politics or horses or music or...

“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ”