Because it's our choices that makes us who we are.

... no matter how nice you are to some people, they'll turn their back on you the second they get the chance.

I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.

You can't expect everyone to have the same dedication as you.

I'm probably something like 95% chicken nugget

See, when you're a little kid, nobody ever warns you that you've got an expiration date. One day you're hot stuff and the next day you're a dirt sandwich.

So I've started wearing sweatpants to bed because I really don't need Santa seeing me in my underwear.

I labored for eight years thinking that I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher informed me I'd written a children's book.

I'm having a seriously hard time getting used to the fact that summer is over and I have to get out of bed every morning to go to school.

Well, the problem is, it's not easy for me to think of ways to improve myself, because I'm pretty much one of the best people I know.

I don't know what a guy needs to do to impress a girl these days.

Ich werde stehen und warten.Ich werde müde werden.Ich werde nicht einschlafen.Ich werde sterben.

The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world.

I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

I landed in this country with $2.50 in cash and $1 million in hopes, and those hopes never left me.

If you want to "tone and build," it is time to pick up some iron - that's the way we can get a muscle to grow.

I monitor my self-talk, making sure that it is uplifting and supportive of myself and others.

But since her earliest days, America has inspired people from all over the world. Inspired them with the hope that one day their own countries would be one like this one.

The real demon is success-the anxieties engendered by this quest are relentless, degrading, corroding. What is worse, there is no end to this escalation of desire.

It's okay to be fat. So you're fat. Just be fat and shut up about it.