If you can be not afraid to be laughed at, you could do so many things.

If you want to manage somebody, manage yourself. Do that well and you'll be ready to stop managing. And start leading.

Skateboarders are envied by people because they just glide so free. Any time something moves like water, they’ll make a dam. Every time something moves in nature, they want to stop it.

I think that things are poetic when they don't have a boundary. Without rules. My life is poetic.

You can't just stick with one thing. You have to let your natural style come through, and paint what you naturally like to paint.

If you skateboard, you cant be afraid to have people laugh at you.

I can write anything and just put it in a zine, and then it's out there. It is like blogging but on paper. It is what I started to do before the computers were all popular.

If Math was a woman, we'd be married already.

You can’t make a small world for yourself, because what are you going to do when that small world implodes?

I am enduring temporary sufferings to fulfill my dearest dreams.

My developing sense was that the foundation of a story is an emotional foundation. If a story does not work emotionally, it does not work at all.

God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.

I've never felt that fear is my enemy. Fear is my friend. It offers me a chance to stay alert, keep growing, continue creating something new. If you don't take that sort of risk, you learn nothing.

There are certain areas that you can move to on the earth that will empower you and there are certain areas that can drain you.

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.

Twitter has been my life's work in many senses. It started with a fascination with cities and how they work, and what's going on in them right now.

Ah, tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past; What is recalled by faded flowers, Save that they did not last? Were it not better to forget, Than but remember and regret?

When NASA says they're going into space, they don't mean up and back. They mean orbit.