I never felt like I was anything special. I just feel like a very lucky guy.

How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.

You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.

I won't quit skating until I am physically unable.

I believe that people should take pride in what they do, even if it is scorned or misunderstood by the public at large.

Being different is awesome! All of those who are different are more interesting than those who are clamoring for acceptance because they follow the path.

Nobody asks to be a hero, it just sometimes turns out that way.

My definition of success is doing what you love. I feel many people do things because they feel they have to, and are hesitant to risk following their passion.

I feel like skateboarding is as much of a sport as a lifestyle, and an art form, so there's so much that that transcends in terms of music, fashion, and entertainment.

I love snowboarding, but I would never want to do it competitively or at a professional level. Snowboarding is a spawn of skating, and skating is my passion.

Snowboarding is a spawn of skating, and skating is my passion.

You were created a hero and born to prove it. Stand on challenges and make a difference.

You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality -- not at the same time as you're bombing people, you can't.

Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite of the Sun's children.

Transformation can come in the mysterious guise of shape-shifting, or through a simple change of mind

My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean?

those who attack always do so with greater fervor than those who defend.

I am not the flag: not at all. I am but its shadow.

But the rhythm of the mix tape is the rhythm of romance, the analog hum of a physical connection between two sloppy, human bodies.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

I like to make the mundane fabulous whenever I can.