I think I was around 15 when my Dad was 40 and thought, "Man he's old. There's no way I'll be skating at that age."

God always puts somebody in your life at the right moment.

I was literally living on the edge of life, to the point where I didn't know what was going to happen, not caring, taking chances and finally landing in prison and once there, all my lines were cut.

When skateboarding hit, I wanted to be best skateboarder in the world, and I fought for it, there was nothing that was going to get in my way.

I love the Lord with my life and through that love, I walk the walk, I don't just talk the talk.

I had people telling me I was the best and when it would sink in, I'd feel like I'd have to push things further, otherwise I wasn't worthy of their praise.

Every question I'd ever had God answered and still continues to answer every one I have today. It's really amazing what God can do.

I read the different translations of the Bible they had and really just dove into it, almost so I could prove it all right.

I spent five years in prison, a free man for the first time in my whole life.

I won contest after contest until finally I realized, "Ok, I am the best in the world, but now what?" So I opened my own company, but there was still that feeling of, "What else do I need to do?"

I'd searched everywhere for this thing called love. I went through life seeking something that would be the ultimate.

Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity.

My life, as it passes thus, was indeed hateful to me, and it was during sleep alone that I could taste joy. O blessed sleep!

The blank page, otherwise known as the vast playground of the writer's imagination.

...the Palestinian Arabs' obsession with the Jews and rejection of all political compromise was inspired by Islamic teachings as well as by European fascism.

There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion.

It should be easy for a man who's strong to say he's sorry or admit when he's wrong.

The frontispiece of Mr. Lyell's book is enough to throw a Wernerian into fits.

I am freaking out! I am freaking out, man!

Most of my work has been in corporations, studying how you build an organization that helps people to identify and work to their strengths.

So, how do you kill a dragon? (Channon) With a very sharp sword. (Sebastian)