Isn't it funny how we live inside the lies we believe?

Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime ignoring the control I have over my own world. Today is different.

I was also built from delusional optimism and folly.

I'm sorry, but I don't get it. If we're supposed to ignore everything that's wrong with our lives, then I can't see how we'll ever make things right.

As I load my shirt into the washer for the night, I daydream about making a sign and hanging it around my neck. I could wear it to school tomorrow. It could read, I MISS CHARLIE KHAN.

It also makes my father right again. How will I ever soar with the eagles if I'm surrounded by turkeys?

The trick is remembering that change is as easy as you make it. The trick is remembering that you are the boss of you.

She launched the airplane and it caught a current and circled down toward the town, like a promise of something good.

I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is. Which Zen guy said "If you want to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water"?

--he stopped and eyed Bill Corso--"if you choose to just sit here like a bored jungle gorilla, you will have to write out this quote as many times as you can during the next hour.

I wish for world peace, because it's about as likely to occur anything else I can wish for.

There is nothing God loves more that keeping promises, answering prayers, performing miracles, and fulfilling dreams.

Once you read a classic, you will start loving even the smell of the books.

the time will come, my dearwhen I will hold you closeand all will beright againin the world.

Speculation is a dangerous thing without any evidence to back it up.

The worst of sages is a visitor of princes

Remember, constantly, that when you talk about 'tense of a subjunctive,' you're not talking about time. You're slipping through degrees of reality.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.

For someone attacked by criminals to be victimized a second time by a second-guessing legal system is wrong.

Say as you think and speak it from your souls.