Well, I went to school with Jan and Dean, Ryan O'Neal, some of the Beach Boys we all use to party together.

I was totally devastated for four years in the mid '60s when l tried to buck the tide.

I had always turned it down-to me, smoking pot was absolutely the worst thing in the world. I thought of it as an addiction, and all my friends who smoked it, I felt they really needed help.

I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships.

Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.

There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.

I was still thought of as a kid actor even though I was in my mid twenties.

I wanted to go to regular high school- it looked like a lot of fun.

It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection.

We each had to spend a week out at Lassie's ranch, and whoever got along best with the dog got the part.

Yeah, dog was this man's best friend, for sure.

Shining with craving, his emerald gaze penetrated her soul. "I desire you so much". His whisper melted her heart. His soft touch set her ablaze.

My life is up to me to define. I needed to make my own dreams come true.

For whatever reason, I don't know why, but Cambodians learned something in their suffering and their struggle that we have lost touch with.

The fast paced nature of our technologically-driven world seems to create issues that would appear to be foreign to ancient civilization.

We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle. by Saint Philo of Alexandria

You will never be able to hit a target that you cannot see.

I don't know what makes you so dumb but it really works.

The cheapest of all things is kindness, its exercise requiring the least possible trouble and self-sacrifice. Win hearts, said Burleigh to Queen Elizabeth, and you have all men's hearts and purses.

People need an enemy to feel a sense of purpose.