If an opportunity arises, then I won't use school as an excuse not to work.

My grandmother always said, 'when you receive a paycheck, you always have to put a certain amount to your savings, and 10 percent right away to charity.'

My eye, though, is set on Miley [Cyrus].

My mom raised me with the idea of doing public service, and I definitely want to go in that direction. But I also want to follow in my dad's entrepreneurial footsteps.

My mother's nickname for me is Positive Patrick. I like to live up to that title.

I love to go shopping and see what catches my eye.

My mom always talks about how hard it was to grow up in a political family. It's always split up, and just - I want to have fun in life. No, politics isn't on the list.

Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day, but a thinking through of the day, nevertheless.

Sticks and stones may break my bones but your words were always the hardest.

...don't be self-conscious - other people are completely unaware of you and more concerned with how they appear ...

My experience is that many things are not as bad as I thought they would be.

My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more.

I really like to put my name on everything, so my roommate doesn't steal it. It's really a throwback to that.

It might not be true, but that doesn't mean it's nonsense.

I'm not the type who spends his free time in training camp playing with his Playstation or playing cards on trips. The other players thought it was odd: There he is, reading again.

Laughter was the shape the darkness took around the first appearance of the light.

American culture is kind of a universal culture, I guess. It's things Greeks grew up with, common references you can use. It's very interesting.