I've have a number of violent tics. With Tourette syndrome, there's not just compulsive actions, but compulsive thoughts as well. That used to scare my mother a lot.

Playground of Dreams supports kids in discovering and achieving their own magnificence, that unique quality that only they have, fostering it, watering it, and watching it sprout!

I'm a morning "spinner." That's usually when my brain is thinking too much and I don't necessarily see things positively. So I sit myself down and remember that I'm making it up.

The greatest acting really is spoken without words, or at least I like to think that.

I come alive when there is a chance to learn or do something different.

I had this tic where I touch my mouth to my knee, and I'm always screwing up my back. I've had two shoulder surgeries. My doctor just smiles and laughs at me.

My biggest life lesson is that the past is the past. I do my best not to bring history into my present. It ain't ever easy, but it usually creates more opportunity for joyful experiences.

Here's the thing: I had never been to Boston, my whole life. Probably because I'm a Yankee fan.

In the years when teenagers really need to be connected to somebody, they aren't; especially in small towns where kids are bored and look for something to get them going.

There's moments when you have to make a split-second decision that will form you for the rest of your life.

I am not a broken heart. I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn’t know how to handle anything, at any time, and I am not your fault.

I was trying to get over you! And it didn’t work. I was meant to walk on this earth with only you, I was meant to give only you every piece of me. I don’t want anyone but you. I love you.

Prayer is a spiritual act.

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word never to withdraw one.

I started so old, so the touring world will always be a foreign land for me. I'll never be someone who's "been on the road."

There will always be a Beach Boys. Being a Beach Boy is like being in love

Anytime a child is born, the old people look in his face and ask him if he's the One.

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

The work of God in the cross of Christ strikes us as awe-inspiring only after we have first been awed by the glory of God.