No matter what you say to yourself, you do want to win. You try to look casual, like you're not thinking, 'oh, please pick me.'

In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you'll survive.

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.

We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.

Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.

Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.

We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.

I always wore sneakers when I wanted to. It was always about being comfortable and being myself.

Children are a quality of life ... when our children are happy, then we are better as human beings.

It you want to be somebody, If you want to go some where, you've got to wake up and pay attention

It never occurs to me that there are things I can't do.

Comedy can be very freeing. Laughter truly is the best medicine.

What the head makes cloudy the heart makes clear

Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.

I do not believe that God tortures any person simply for its own sake. I believe that God enables all things to work for the greater good.

I love that I can tell the truth and have people laugh at it.

My dad has always been the bohemian.

I think it shows that sometimes for one person to keep breathing, something else has to stop." (hardcover page 37)

If you keep examining your mind, you'll come to see that thoughts of who you are and how it all is are creating the reality you're experiencing.

Sometimes we are so busy putting everyone else first... we lose sight of who we really are and what we want.

I know now that before I take a picture I have to be sure about how I feel about the subjects. What I don't know is if I should explain to them what I'm doing while I'm photographing them.