David what your mother did to you was wrong. Verry wrong.No child deserves to be treated like that. She's sick.

Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.

To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.

Even in its darkest passages, the heart is unconquerable. It is important that the body survives, but it is more meaningful that the human spirit prevails.

When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process.

It is important for people to know that no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dark side and press on the a brighter world.

Everyone picked on me in school because I was in foster care.

I still love my former wife, I won't call her my ex-wife.

Ask yourself: was there anything I could have done to prevent the situation? If the answer is yes, do something now and become a better person for it.

You have to understand that in a person's life there are a few precious moments in which decisions, choices that you make now, will affect you for the rest of your life.

You can be a victim of cancer, or a survivor of cancer. It's a mindset.

My early business ventures included growing Christmas trees and breeding birds.

You have to find ways of integrating what you like into your business life. And it's difficult at times, but I think over time with experience, you learn how to do it.

The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.

. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.

Compose aloud: poetry is a sound. Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader, but is the rare one with ears in his head.

Don't waste your time on beaming people up or down. Instead, consider gravity waves as advanced physics of the universe that could be used to travel interstellar distances.

I look at Breaking Bad as a show about the American family.

There's been a load of compromising, on the road to my horizon, but I'm gonna be where the lights are shining on me.

There [in The Kite Runner] certainly are, as is always the case with fiction, autobiographical elements woven through the narrative.

I quite frequently don't look through the camera, which is very close to being blind.