Your life going off the rails is the best thing that could happen to you. Life isn’t a train. It’s a s*** tornado full of gold. You don’t have to have a plan. You have to try to stay clean and grab every gold bar you can.[to Payton]
You can’t teach kindness. You know? I tried for a long time. Can’t do much with small hearts. Hard hearts, maybe, but not small ones.
Nothing is permanent. Not what you own, not what you love, not even the things that you think will break you forever.
Your generation got the terrible idea that it was best to vomit every thought and feeling all over each other. It’s a pandemic of overcommunication that’s led to an absence of intimacy.[to Payton]
Would you like some advice? Find some way to bring music into your life.[to Payton]
There are jobs that feed the ego, and there are jobs that make a difference. Politics does both. It’s vanity without the bitter aftertaste.
People don’t believe you because you don’t believe you.[to Payton]
I love you so much. And I know I’m gonna do whatever it takes to help you get what you want. And I’m sad for the person that’s gonna turn me into.
Great lessons are only learned when the stakes are high.
Ethics are the rules that social systems provide us, and morals are the principles which we govern ourselves by.
A mother should open her heart to her children, not make them fight their way in.
