My sense of misadventure took over and I began looking at my problems as challenges.

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.

Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?

In 5-billion years the Sun will expand & engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day.

Can you imagine a waveless ocean while there is a big storm outside? And that calm ocean is the ocean of wisdom!

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

Success is not handed to you. You must work hard for it and you must never dishonor what you’ve achieved.

If we took away barriers to women's leadership, we would solve the climate change problem a lot faster

Unselfish love for all people without exception is the most important point of convergence among all significant spiritualities and religions.

A first kiss after five months means more than a first kiss after five minutes.

People aren't trees, so it is false when they speak of roots.

I have a pretty fresh delivery. I feel that I am probably more of a dramatic actor, but I'm also a comedian. Every day I am polishing up my skills.