Life is for the living. Don't let the fear of striking out let you from keep you from playing the game.

I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don’t want to die.

Having a friend made everything else suck less.

Mr. Freeman sighs. "No imagination. What are you thirteen? Fourteen? You've already let them beat your creativity out of you!

I handed my tools. The two of them reached down to help me out of the crater I'd dug. ''Isn't that a little deep?'' Yoda asked. ''It'll help the roots get established,'' I explained. ''Established where? China?

Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.

I look at my homely sketch. It doesn't need anything. Even through the river in my eyes I can see that. It isn't perfect and that makes it just right.