If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.

It would be so easy to let my fate just carry me away... following this same path my whole life through. But I know I can't. What I do, I do...with no regrets.

The more of you I see, the more I'm glad I'm me

I learned to practice smiling when I'm feeling sad, you know?

Even in the hardest circumstances, dreams can give you the courage to live, and I hope I can share that message with children in need.

The magic never worked! The only thing we’re left with is regret.

The people who should be here aren’t. The ones who should be smiling with me aren’t here.

I really hope that when I leave, my last trace will be beautiful.

For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it.

It is better to die in hope than live in despair.

I don’t want friends to die...or fade away. I don’t want battles where we have to lose in order to win.

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

How lonely it is!To be drowning, in a placewhere everyone can swim.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

If I didn't exist, I would have invented myself.

Just build things and find out if they work.

America's the one country in the world where anybody who comes here does better than where they came from.

I never listened to country music growing up.

I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

But the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed.

The science is in: either we go cold turkey on our coal, oil, and gas addictions, or we risk raising the planet's temperature to a level incompatible with the continued existence of civilization.