"Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections."

"One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching"

"Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person."

"The best thing about wearing black is that you can hide pretty easily, unless you're in like Hawaii, then you can't hide."

"It's okay to love something a little too much,as long as it's real to you."

"So people keep asking me what this badge is for... this badge makes me the sheriff, the sheriff of Emo town, so get your straight irons and eyeliner ready!"

"Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive."

"As soon as I go into a Starbucks I take off my sunglasses. I want to be recognised and I want free coffee."

"Don't ever let the media tell you what your body is supposed look like. You're beautiful the way you are. Stay beautiful, keep it ugly."

"NOTHING is worth hurting yourself over. NOTHING is worth taking your life over, DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!"

"Tears are words the heart can't express"

"In those perfect moments you find beauty you never knew existed. You find yourself and you friends all over again, you find something to fight for, something to love. Something to show the world."

"All your quirks and all your problems - even your depressions and your failures - that’s what makes you you."

"You have to destroy something to make it beautiful."

"It reminded me of a meat grinder. From when I was a kid. Going to school it felt like you were in a meat grinder. It chews you up and pours out this mess that can't function"

"It is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fireside than to occupy a cold bleak hill and sleep under frost and snow without cloaths or blankets."

"Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust."

"Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights."

"If the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens."

"Let your conversation be without malice or envy, for it is a sign of a tractable and commendable nature; and in all cases of passion admit reason to govern."

"Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment."

"LIBERTY, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth."

"One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts."

"The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in."