I don't smile as much as I should, even though I smile inside a lot.

Good memories are like charms...Each is special. You collect them, one by one, until one day you look back and discover they make a long, colorful bracelet.

Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually get it.

A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night

Some poeple just don't have what it takes to appreciate a cookie.

Oh great. Yoda captured us.

Who, last time I'd checked, was still on our official archenemy list. (Yes, we have to keep a list. It's kind of sad.)

They call me, The Sharkalator

At that moment I had no mind to change, or not change, or throw against the nearest wall.

I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose.

I had to give him props, but how annoying of him to be a hero when I was trying so hard to dislike him. It was downright selfish.

I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage.

Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

I have never known anyone important enough to consume me in anger beyond a few hours. Better to depart their existence before they poison your own.

The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

I could really care less about the TV and the fame, it's all about that lifetime achievement of becoming a world champion.

If you don't have faith, you have nothing.

When thoughts tell you it’s too late, dismiss them. You haven’t dreamed your best dream. You haven’t run your best race.

It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.

Try seeing your world and yourself this way, eyes open to whatever is before you, mind free of dichotomies. Are you good or bad, fragile or tough, wise or foolish? Yes. And so am I.

Kaizen means ongoing improvement involving everybody, without spending much money.