I don't regret pulling the trigger. I should have been more careful with many of the things I said afterwards. That was a big regret.

With my time in the limelight, I regret that I didnt use it more to push vegetarianism. I support vegetarian options in the school lunch program.

When you are surrounded by four people, one of them smiling, taunting, demanding, terrorizing, you don't have a complete grasp or perfect vision.

Society is better off without certain people.

Jail is much easier on people who have nothing.

I would, without any hesitation, shoot a violent criminal again.

Prior to being mugged I did not feel I had to carry a gun. However, I knew how to shoot a gun very proficiently. As a boy, I used to play cowboys and Indians all the time.

I think vegetarianism is a crucial ethical choice for an individual and a society.

To shoot a gun proficiently, including speed shooting, is much less of a skill than typing.

Anyone, any type of story, it doesnt have to be a crime victim, you dont have to let yourself be food for the media.

The whole trial seemed surreal.

I think that I am too warm to negatively judge individuals, yet I am cold enough to negatively judge humanity.

Instead of giving God His rightful place at the center of our lives, we have substituted the “god” of Self. Only Christ can change our hearts—and through us begin to change our world.

Your life is too big of a celebration to dare to permit anyone or anything to ruin it.

To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this will happen, mark me. Childhood's end.

For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.

All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.

I've never been in fashion. Not at all.

You know how it is: as soon as you decide to forget something, your brain comes to the conclusion that it's the most fascinating thing in the world.

I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.

I think anyone who gives you relationship advice goes off of past relationships they have that didn't work. You've got to follow your own path.