"Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a 'friendship.'"

"When you have a dream you've got to grab it and never let go."

"Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers."

"The present is a rope stretched over the past. The secret to walking it is, you never look down."

"There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open."

"Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

"Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone."

"He who is drowned is not troubled by the rain."

"God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try."

"Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production."