Being different is awesome! All of those who are different are more interesting than those who are clamoring for acceptance because they follow the path.

You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.

I won't quit skating until I am physically unable.

I believe that people should take pride in what they do, even if it is scorned or misunderstood by the public at large.

My definition of success is doing what you love. I feel many people do things because they feel they have to, and are hesitant to risk following their passion.

I feel like skateboarding is as much of a sport as a lifestyle, and an art form, so there's so much that that transcends in terms of music, fashion, and entertainment.

I love snowboarding, but I would never want to do it competitively or at a professional level. Snowboarding is a spawn of skating, and skating is my passion.

Snowboarding is a spawn of skating, and skating is my passion.

I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.

The irony about selling out is that they only call you a sell-out when your stuff finally sells - I've had products bearing my name since I was 14, but nobody was buying them then.

I love the fact that there is now a skate park in almost every city, but it will always have a rebellious/underground edge to it because it is based on individuality.

You can be in excellent physical shape, with low cholesterol, a healthy body weight and good overall physical fitness - but that doesn't necessarily mean you're healthy.

The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.

It's little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.

The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.

Choice by choice, moment by moment, I build the necklace of my day, stringing together the choices that form artful living.

The love that saves us is not a love that might come to us in the future, but rather the love we can give to whomever is around us right now.

You can't build everything and there is no more a killer feature. Everyone has a different killer feature.

I think at some point during the course of the game, I will have an impact - whether it's blocking or whether it's catching the football.

Computers might not find the solutions to our problems, but they would be able to do the bulk of the legwork required, assist our human minds in intuitively finding ways through the maze.

It's the anarchy of poverty delights me, the old yellow wooden house indented among the new brick tenements