Why is it called Piggie-back riding? I'm not a piggie!

We are the superhero, none of us individually, but all of us together.

Humanity is good. Some people are terrible and broken, but humanity is good. I believe that.

Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing.

I honestly don't know how you live without having a cat inside your house. It's like having a little living piece of art that is also very warm and soft.

Stop listening to people telling us we need to hate each other

Making an un-perfect decision is far, far better than not making a decision, which is the worst possible decision you could make.

Being silly is still allowed, not excluded by adulthood. What's excluded by adulthood is thoughtlessness, so be thoughtful and silly

Some days, it seems to me like the purpose of life is to convert energy into beauty.

‎Sometimes I feel like when someone asks me if I believe in God, it's like a blind person asking if I'm black, so that they can put me in the right category.

I forgot how to throw a boomerang, but then it came back to me.

Thank God for His daily blessings.

A good writer is a magician

LIFE IS A MAGIC, GOD IS THE MAGICIAN

Don’t just hit a home run. Knock it out of the park.

I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle.

When you look at my photos, just look into the eyes of my subjects. The eyes say so much.

Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work.

It is interesting sometimes to stop and think and wonder what the place you are currently at used to be like in times past, who walked there, who worked there and what the walls have seen.

Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.