If you find here & now intolerable, you have options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.
Just 'cause you pour syrup on something doesnt make it pancakes
Take a stand for what's right. Raise a ruckus and make a change. You may not always be popular, but you'll be part of something larger and bigger and greater than yourself. Besides, making history is extremely cool.
If you do not have courage, you may not have the opportunity to use any of your other virtues.
You ain't got but one life. You ought to live it the way you want.
I grew up in the South with guns everywhere and we never shot anyone. This [shooting] is about people who aren't taught the value of life.
My ass may be dumb, but I ain't no dumbass.
The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations.
My mother said, "kiss him, darling, it's easy so natural" and I thought to myself, not with lips of stone, dear mother, not with lips of stone
People who come up to me are drummers or fans of the band. I don't get it too much, but I'll be somewhere and someone will have me take a picture or something.
By working in the morning, I find a sense of peace; it's isolated peace, but I can definitely be in touch with my feelings, and then I just start.