Societal expectations matter little; personal expectations matter tremendously.

Academic success depends on research and publications.

Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.

Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene that perpetuates such abuse.

To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant — because you're always going against the conformity of the group.

The world is, was, will always be filled with good and evil, because good and evil is the yin and yang of the human condition.

If you want to change a person, you've got to change the situation.

Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse.

Our time is brief, and it will pass no matter what we do. So let us have purpose in spending it. Let us spend it so that our time matters to each of us, and matters to all those whose lives we touch.

At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia...

The greatest gift that you can give to others and to yourself is time. Embrace the gift of time whether you give it or receive it.

To shift your life in a desired direction, you must powerfully shift your subconscious.

Be bold - and mighty forces will come to your aid.

"Sometimes" is sometimes "not never".

I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.

I do not think I reinvent myself. Wearing my hair differently or changing my style of dress is playing dress-up. I don't take it too seriously.

Let every foot have its own shoe.

The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because the new is always left in the place of the old.

Every one can remember that which has interested himself.

The avoidance of money is just as psychotic as being attached to money.

O heaven! were man, But constant, he were perfect.