I liked learning but the challenge was that my mother's need to turn education into a competition was ruining the experience for me.

I didn't let what I wanted to do become a made up memory that I looked back on years down the road and wished it was real.

Honestly, if I stay on this gruelling path, I'm going to end up as another suicide statistic.

I must have appeared like a real bad boy in Christy's eyes. Well, at least a bad boy by home and away standards.

It wasn't a glorious or grand act of misadventure but it was a start. It wasn't what I should have done but it was what I truly wanted to do.

A fight needs at least two fighters. Sometimes you can win straight away by not fighting.

Someone who lives vicariously will never be truly happy because they're not happy with themselves.

If you're not happy with yourself, how can you even begin to figure out if another person makes you happy, annoyed, angry, sad and so on.

This is your chance. Are you going to cower and make excuses or are you going to do what you really want to do?

It seemed, at that point, my greed and cunningness were being rewarded.

She'd been fed anti-consumerist bullshit by her parents but didn't understand simple economics.

Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for christmas morning.Time can't be given.But it can be shared

An elite confederacy of nerds. My peeps

Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

It is not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you.

The United Nations is nothing but a trap-door to the Red World's immense concentration camp. We pretty much control the U.N.

The whole world may not understand me, but I don’t care.

Absolutely father knows best, always do what your fathers say, and if you can't find one then just ask me, I am a father and I know best.

If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.