You know the best thing about competition? There's this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that hard math equation. You finally get the answer and you're so happy.

Some people attach snowboards to their feet, very few attach them to their souls.

I totally forget about snowboarding in the summertime.

I wasn't your average kid. I was signing autographs in Japan at 12.

I personally think skateboarding is harder because it has so many moving parts. With snowboarding, your feet are strapped to your board.

I’m a big fan of doing what you are really bad at. A lot.

You take a crash, you get back up and next time you succeed and that's a great feeling.

I remember thinking that I'd way rather give my parents my money, and not have to like have them go to work anymore, you know what I mean. Because I'd way rather spend more time with them.

Usually the thing that signifies that I'm done with the winter and all that is that I start skateboarding.

I think the way to become the best is to just have fun.

The hardest thing about skateboarding is consistency: The slightest flick of your foot or gust of wind can send your board flying, so it's really anybody's game out there.

It's only awkward if it matters.

Ideas can come from anywhere and at any time. The problem with making mental notes is that the ink fades very rapidly.

You're so beautiful, " he told her. Her laughter tickled his ears. "You realize you're looking at my back, right?" "Mmm-hmmm. And it's a very beautiful back.

As an early child, I tried to play every kind of music that I heard. I thought everyone was doing that.

Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.

The hardest thing about going to college should not be paying for it.

I wrote a study about this question, The Lessons of October, which served as a pretext for my elimination from the government.

Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?

Stumble is worse than falling, because stumble is not as instructive as the falling!

Mother sighed with exasperation. "Look, there aren't any "people in charge of death". When you die you move to another part of London, that's all there is to it. Period.