I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships.

I was totally devastated for four years in the mid '60s when l tried to buck the tide.

I had always turned it down-to me, smoking pot was absolutely the worst thing in the world. I thought of it as an addiction, and all my friends who smoked it, I felt they really needed help.

Well, I went to school with Jan and Dean, Ryan O'Neal, some of the Beach Boys we all use to party together.

Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.

There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.

I was still thought of as a kid actor even though I was in my mid twenties.

I wanted to go to regular high school- it looked like a lot of fun.

It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection.

We each had to spend a week out at Lassie's ranch, and whoever got along best with the dog got the part.

Yeah, dog was this man's best friend, for sure.

Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.

In a household tragedy, you are very much aware of being alone. It is something that is possible to grasp, and that is why it hurts so much. Because you are alone. I know a little about this.

At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.

We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.

There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.

It's my heart that is tired. A thirteen-year-old heart shouldn't feel like this.

How wonderful it is to be surprised by God’s call, to embrace his word, and to walk in the footsteps of Jesus... Your life will become richer and more joyful each day!

Financial struggle is often the direct result of people working all their lives for someone else.

I don't want to look too far ahead. The journey is what's happening right now, not what's on the finishing line.

When one being gets into the mood of life he can bring millions to life. When one fellow gets into the suicidal mood, he can kill thousands along with him.