Fear is dangerous. It sparks violence much faster than anger.

People can be cruelest to those they love.

Love was like the waves in the sea, gentle and good sometimes, rough and terrible at others, but that it was endless and stronger than the sky and earth and everything in between.

You can't be miserable when you're running. It's such a simple and pure way to feel alive.

We all have the potential to do terrible things. But we also have the potential to overcome our mistakes.

How do you restart something that had never been turned off?

Because people are more than emotions. People have thoughts and reasons for doing things.

An oath is a promise-and a promise can be made regardless of feeling.

If there was no fear, how could there be comfort? Or courage?

A good dream was something you clung to until the last moment before waking.

And it's always better, isn't it, when you discover answers on your own?

The apparent is never the real.

I want to express myself to feel that what I feel is real. My joy, my pain, my anger.

The prospect of going home is very appealing.

A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.

There is such a thing as fanaticism, it is always wrong, and if you disagree, you're wrong too.

It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into.

After the devil himself, there is no worse folk than the pope and his followers.

Use a mirror in difficult times. You will see both cause and resolution.

I thought I was your destination. Looks like I was just another stop on the line.

I'm a big fan of cultural music, and that's how I try to expand my playing, by listening to music that is not conventionally American.