The laughs mean more to me than the adoration. If two girls walk up to me and one says 'you're cute', I'll say 'thank you', but I appreciate it much more when the other one says 'you make me laugh so much'.

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.

Optimism is a cure for many things.

I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls.

My notion of spirituality was different than it is now, but even if I'd been the most fundamentalist of believers, I would have assumed that God had better things to do than arbitrarily smite me with shaking palsy.

The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.

Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not.