You are born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?
Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the
world.
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show
for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.
Do not compare yourself with others, for you are a unique and wonderful creation. Make
your own beautiful footprints in the snow.
If you wish to be like someone else, you waste the person you are.
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
It's not about fitting in, it's about carrying on. . .
I need someone to ease my mind, but sometimes a someone is so hard to find.
You want to, but you can't, and when you do, you wish you hadn't.
Just because I'm moody doesn't mean you're not annoying.
Just because something ends doesn't mean it never should have been.
Don't be a magician, be magic.
That's not flying. . . it's falling with style.
If you don't expect too much from me, you might not be let down.
If they create it, then they can control it; but since they didn't create me, they can't
control me.
We discover in ourselves what others hide from us, and we recognize in others what we hide
from ourselves.
When I know how much you care, then I care how much you know.
It's the little things that makes us all individuals, unique, and special in our own special
ways.
Who are you anyways? You audience. You're on me every night like a pack of wolves because
you can't stand facing what you are and what you've made. Yes, the world is a terrible place.
Yes, cancer and garbage disposals will get you. Yes, a war is coming. Yes, the world is shot to
hell and you're all goners. Everything's screwed up and you like it that way, don't you? You're
fascinated by the gory details. You're mesmerized by your own fear. You revel in floods, car
accidents, unstoppable diseases. You're happiest when others are in pain. That's where I come in,
isn't it? I'm here to lead you by the hands through the dark forest of your own hatred and anger
and humiliation. I'm providing a public service. You're so scared. You're like a little child
under the covers, you're afraid of the bogeyman, but you can't live without him. Your fear, your
own lives have become your entertainment. Next month millions of people are going to be listening
to this show, and you have nothing to talk about. Marvellous technology is at our disposal, but
instead of reaching up to new heights, we're going to see how far down we can go. How deep into
the muck we can immerse ourselves. What do you want to talk about? Baseball scores, your pet,
orgasms? You're pathetic. I despise each and every one of you. You've got nothing, absolutely
nothing. No brains, no power, no future, no hope, no god. The only thing you believe in is me.
What are you if you don't have me? I'm not afraid, see? I come in here every night, I make my
case, I make my point, I say what I believe in. I tell you what you are. I have to. I have no
choice. You frighten me. I come in here every night. I tear into you, I abuse you, I insult you.
You just keep coming back for more. What's wrong with you?
I managed to take a beautiful soul, a blooming flower, and with some terrible power that I
didn't know I possessed. . . I withered the blossom and have perhaps destroyed one of the most
precious things on the planet.
I don't belong. Not here. Not now. I have to get back there. The bet was rigged, he
made me believe. Now there's darkness in my soul. I want to die. . . again. But I choose to
come back, why?
Give it all you got until you're put out of your misery.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
You never really leave a place you love - part of it you take with you - leaving a part of
yourself behind.
The worst prison would be a closed heart.
If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the
expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you
different from every other living creature.
To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you
everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never
stop fighting.
Conform and be dull.
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
For after all, the best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
Make yourself necessary to someone.
We confess to small faults in order to insinuate that we have no great ones.
The really great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
Your art is false and is only an illusion to the senses.
Don't waste your energy struggling against the forces that hold you back.
It may be easier to pretend that this never happened.
She is like a dove that has strayed. . . She is like a narcissus trembling in the wind. . .
She is like a silver flower.
Long ago, I learned how to be brave, how to go forward always and to contend for honor.
Honor - for in my heart and soul I know a day will come.
Who can say that a man is still alive when his life's joy fails?
I have been a stranger here in my own land: All my life the blasphemy of my birth has
followed me.
I waved frantically, but no one saw me. In my heart, I knew my effort was in vain. I
wished that just once - just once - someone would smile and wave back.
I was out of my mind. What mortal, what god did I not curse? In all the city's ruin what
bitterer thing did I see?
The reason of the unreason that afflicts my reason, in such a manner weakens my reason that
I with reason lament me of your comeliness.
