As I load my shirt into the washer for the night, I daydream about making a sign and hanging it around my neck. I could wear it to school tomorrow. It could read, I MISS CHARLIE KHAN.

Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime ignoring the control I have over my own world. Today is different.

I was also built from delusional optimism and folly.

Isn't it funny how we live inside the lies we believe?

I'm sorry, but I don't get it. If we're supposed to ignore everything that's wrong with our lives, then I can't see how we'll ever make things right.

It also makes my father right again. How will I ever soar with the eagles if I'm surrounded by turkeys?

The trick is remembering that change is as easy as you make it. The trick is remembering that you are the boss of you.

She launched the airplane and it caught a current and circled down toward the town, like a promise of something good.

I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is. Which Zen guy said "If you want to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water"?

--he stopped and eyed Bill Corso--"if you choose to just sit here like a bored jungle gorilla, you will have to write out this quote as many times as you can during the next hour.

I wish for world peace, because it's about as likely to occur anything else I can wish for.

There is freedom in homeschooling.

Never do anything that you don’t want to have to explain to 9-1-1 personnel.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America.

The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.

The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work hard for them.

I believe all children are - are blessings from God. And to allocate that rule to a doctor - to - to dispose of a life is uncomprehensible to me.

This world is filled with five billion people with five billion different ways of looking at things.

I need to be creative, make art every day for my own sanity.

I don't know whether our watching the play in these times was a coincidence or divine intervention but time and again, we were introspecting.