The goal isn’t to make something everyone will love; the goal is to get excited, and make a thing where something wasn’t before.

Be honest. Be kind. Be honorable. Work hard. And always be awesome.

My wife is the most awesome person in the universe. She's made this experience much less miserable for me, with her compassion, patience and understanding.

I spent a lot of my childhood not fitting in, in a lot of different ways.

When I was a boy I was called a nerd all the time — because I didn’t like sports, I loved to read, I liked math and science, I thought school was really cool — and it hurt a lot. Because it’s never ok when a person makes fun of you for something you didn’t choose. You know, we don’t choose to be nerds. We can’t help it that we like these things — and we shouldn’t apologize for liking these things.

When you say a 'former child star,' you may as well say 'failed child star.

When you get a group of kids together, especially boys, the psychology of those kids requires that they find a weak kid or a sensitive kid or a soft kid.