Perhaps I lost sight of my dreams when I became an adult and resigned myself to acting the way adults were supposed to act.

Your "I CAN" is more important than your IQ.

Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.

the purpose of life is the life of purpose

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

Every big dream starts small.

Change is hard at first, Messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.

we grow fearless when we do the things we fear

Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.

They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off.

All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.

The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.

The Hercules' was a monumental undertaking. It is the largest aircraft ever built... I put the sweat of my life into this thing.

I have to tell you I love living in a world without clocks. The shackles are gone. I’m a puppy unleashed in a meadow of time. -- Stargirl

When it becomes really impossible to get away and sleep, then the will to live evaporates of its own accord.

When we have a circle of friends, we have more fun. We get more done, we feel and are stronger, and we really do celebrate the power of our 'us.'

On stage it's just a wild setting - we have a big screen - hecklers, I'm fighting. It's entertainment, but I want to pierce [the audience's] souls and have them think about what I have to say.

We killed an innocent girl