The best way to trick yourself into actually feeling these positive feelings, even if you are not feeling too good is to use your memories, fantasies, dreams and desires judiciously.

Things often have a 50/50 chance of going our way or the other, trust that you will be able to handle the disappointment, change, discomfort and treat it all as an adventure.

Faith and doubt cannot reside together. An iota of doubt is enough to taint the entire process, it is like a drop of red ink in water.

There is no fault, only responsibility.

God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers.

When we have dealt with bin Laden and his network we will then broaden the campaign to go after other terrorists all around the world.

Sisters make the best friends in the world.

I'm not going to beat somebody up for talking smack to me, especially another skater.

How can we live without the unknown before us?

"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.

I had a perfect life in my reach once, and it was a crashing bore. Perfect is too clean, too easy. I don't want perfect any more than I want to be perfect. I want imperfect.

Love is like a roller coaster. It can take you to the highest, most spectacular heights or drop you to bottom in seconds. However, even with the risks, love is undoubtedly worth it in the end.

If the world ran the way a crew runs a set, we'd have a better, more progressive world.