The greatest thing you can give a child is confidence.

So long as you've got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don't really have to care what everyone else thinks.

I do mixed martial arts, mainly kickboxing.

I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.

Every day I do something that freaks me out.

I'm always weeping at something or other.

My home is a place of warmth and love. No one should be denied a home.

I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby.

Mmm, I love Yoda. I didn't like Jar Jar Binks though, he was all wrong.

The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.

I don't believe in God.

Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.

It's better to swim in the sea belowThan to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.

Music. It’s not about those things. It’s about a feeling. It’s about expressing yourself. It’s about letting go.

Paradox is the pathos or the passion of philosophy.

And it's just dawned on me that I might be the author of my own story, but so is everyone else the author of their own stories, and sometimes, like now, there's no overlap.

If there's any real truth, it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs.

Withholding things in a story is no good if you aren't building to something substantial. It becomes foreplay without the main event, and no one wants that.

He grinned at me so unexpectedly I forgot to flap for a second and dropped several feet. "You looove me," he crooned smugly. Holding his arms out wide, he added, "You love me this much.

I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.

I didn't mind being thought of as dumb. I knew I wasn't.