In our town, the most popular way out was joining the service. So my three best friends joined the Navy to get out. I didn't.

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.

Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.

Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will?

As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me."

We all need to be blind sometimes in order to see.

Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you.

Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.

It's easy to say, 'I love you,' to someone, but it's more meaningful to thank someone for loving you.

Just because someone has fancy sneakers doesn't mean they can run faster.

Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.

But in a home where grief is fresh and patience has long worn thin, making it through another day is often heroic in itself.

I hope the snow covers everything so all the footsteps are silenced, and the whole city can be at peace.

The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.

You'd think one day we'd learn. You don't get anything unless you fight for it, united and with visible numbers. If ACT UP taught us anything, it taught us that.

I want to win championship. That's the think I enjoy most.

I'd like my reputation to stay as it is and to be remembered for a wonderful decade.

I blundered into writing.

In elementary and middle school, I threw kids against the wall. I rubbed their heads in the dirt at recess. I bit them. I even knocked teeth out.

I don't know. I don't have a fax machine, so I didn't get that message.

I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.