Being in a wheelchair has made everyday things difficult. Things you wouldn't imagine. Like the looks I get at high school basketball games when they tell everyone to stand for the National Anthem.

Seeing pictures of other places around the world makes me feel more important. Reminds me, even though life is short, there's so much to do.

A lot of people will ignore positive words when they are down and accept negative words. Those people never get better.

Sometimes when I'm writing, I wonder if the words have a mind of their own, and if they're really just using me as a puppet to manifest themselves.

Sometimes, when I'm alone, I wonder if it really counts as being alone, since I am covered in millions of other living organisms.

One time, I went to a restaurant and I asked the waiter for some food for thought. He left, came back, and tried shoving a sirloin in my ear.

When a fire rises, don't be quick to worry. Find the purpose of the fire, if it's negative, water it down, if positive, feed the flames.

I knew a kid who stuck a knife in the toaster on a few occasions. He learned it hurt. He grew up to be a great electrician.

[people] very fact that it's decentralized makes it literally impossible to try to hack or rig the results.

There are no judgments so harsh as those of the erring, the inexperienced, and the young.

Blessed be the slot players for theirs is the hope of a better day dawning.

We all wish for world peace, but world peace will never be achieved unless we first establish peace within our own minds.

Government of the people by the people and for the people cannot be conducted at the bidding of one man, however great he may be.

The more you plan and the more rigid you are, it takes away from your experience

As a kid, I wasn't listening to The Who; I was listening to Frankie Knuckles.

The scientific facts indicate that all the temperature changes observed in the last 100 years were largely natural changes and were not caused by carbon dioxide produced in human activities.

I do want to look good still; I do want to be healthy.

It's love that makes the world go round.