We all start out thinking that there is such a thing as perfection and that there's something wrong with us if we settle for less. First we won't eat the food with the brown spots. Then we hate ourselves because we have our own brown spots—pimples or ears that are too big or legs that are too skinny.

Sometimes kids just act impulsively, but it's because we have strong feelings, not because we're trying to make trouble.

Another thing I think about names is that they DO hurt. They hurt because we believe them. We think they are telling us something true about ourselves, something other people can see even if we don't. —Bobby Goodspeed

I am about to stop being a get-along kind of guy and turn into somebody who makes a difference.

The future is a trickster rabbit, full of surprises. Only the past is predictable. -Bobby Goodspeed

We all start out thinking that there is such a thing as perfection and that there's something wrong with us if we settle for less. First we won't eat the food with the brown spots. Then we hate ourselves because we have our own brown spots—pimples or ears that are too big or legs that are too skinny.

Sometimes I wish I were a character in a book and there was a writer out there giving me things to say.