Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to becomes master of your own destiny, you have more to learn.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.

After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.

I'm glad I don't have a drinking problem,' I confided, 'because I don't think I'd ever be able to quit.

I don't subscribe to any particular doctrine or ideology. I just think that there's kind of a good and bad, the good being life in its purest, happiest form, and the other being the darker side of existence.

Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk.