If you're not happy with yourself, how can you even begin to figure out if another person makes you happy, annoyed, angry, sad and so on.

I didn't let what I wanted to do become a made up memory that I looked back on years down the road and wished it was real.

Honestly, if I stay on this gruelling path, I'm going to end up as another suicide statistic.

I must have appeared like a real bad boy in Christy's eyes. Well, at least a bad boy by home and away standards.

It wasn't a glorious or grand act of misadventure but it was a start. It wasn't what I should have done but it was what I truly wanted to do.

A fight needs at least two fighters. Sometimes you can win straight away by not fighting.

Someone who lives vicariously will never be truly happy because they're not happy with themselves.

This is your chance. Are you going to cower and make excuses or are you going to do what you really want to do?

It seemed, at that point, my greed and cunningness were being rewarded.

She'd been fed anti-consumerist bullshit by her parents but didn't understand simple economics.

Now comes the hard part. Peyton, Peyton, Peyton. Just say Peyton.

The future starts within a second from now.The past was, within a second ago.

I walk with God, and He protects me. That may very well be true. I don't mean to make that sound like a joke, in case He is in charge.

We usually say there is always a ‘Plan B,’ but there is no ‘Planet B’.

My views tend to be centrist. I'm not a big fan of George W., but my politics tend to be more Republican than not.

Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone.

You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way.

I don't really believe in cliques - I think everyone can be friends with everyone.

Mark Twain said, The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug. Fill your book with lightning.

Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.

In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills.