I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. I grew up in Houston. Gordo Cooper was my favorite astronaut.

In my early teen years, I wanted to become a vet. That was my plan. I worked as a veterinarian's assistant for a couple of summers.

I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

I really want to see the Cubs in the World Series. I really do.

I want to work with great people. Great people really make you better.

Surfing is like golf: You're always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of wipeouts. But when you stay with it and catch that wave, you really taste it. It's magic.

Everybody just wants to be famous first, and then maybe learn how to act.

God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together.

Certainly I'm a Christian first and foremost. But I do believe in religious tolerance and finding the commonality between all of us. I think that's how we're all going to come together.

I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.

Let there be a wide breadth of possible ways to create.

The backwardness of our religious and social developments is undoubtedly holding back the development of the intellectual and political levels.

In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.

A merry companion is as good as a wagon, For you shall be sure to ride though ye go a foot.

There was a hidden narrative I felt we could get into, It's about an accessible world. Family and relationships are accessible subjects.

I don't think you necessarily have to be part of a traditional nuclear family to be a good mother.

Kiss the feet of Popes provided their hands are tied.

I felt that K wasn't getting a fair shake anyway.