It was as if I was automatically one of them because I smoked.

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.

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.

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.

Plant the seeds of trust and compassionMake caring and sharing a life's missionHold hand with dreams of greatness Peace will grow with beauty and fragrance.

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.

As a human race, we have good people and bad people, and everyone has agendas.

I told all of our original investors that they would lose their money for sure.

The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.

Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men

I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards.

More people can be great leaders than think they can, but they need a purpose greater than themselves.

Perhaps the heart of the American Dream was found in the search.

Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.