From the time I was six years old, I wanted to be a BMX Racer and be the best.

I believe BMX has shaped me into who I am today, so if this journey never would have begun, then who knows the person I would be or what I would be doing with my life.

BMX is kind of a big guy sport, you know.

I haven't accepted anyone telling me what is or isn't possible and have just kept moving along toward my goals.

I always travel with my bike and it has become a little more difficult to do it nowadays, but I stick it in 3,5 by 6-foot case and wheel that thing in.

Psychology at best tells us how things are, not how they are supposed to be! There is no utopic science.

Each day in this country, twenty-three hundred children are reported missing.

Learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid being one whose mistakes are used as lessons by others.

But there is, I have learned, no permanent escape from the past. It may be an unrecognized law of our nature that we should be drawn back, inevitably, to the place where we have suffered most.

If you cultivate your body, your mind, your emotions, and your energies to a certain level of maturity, meditation will blossom.

by the general love of scandal and detraction in Dublin, one might reasonably imagine they were all to feed themselves through the holes which they had made in the characters of others.

I always acted like a star long before I was one.

I live like a man who's dead already! I have no fear whatsoever of anybody or anything

Writing is not just the technical act of your fingers on the keyboard. Writing is living.

The greatest happiness in life is to be truly and consistently creative.