Hopefully, kids realize you can do anything you want. Skateboarding can be that gateway.

Don't ever give up. You gotta keep trying, and never give up.

I'm living with every step. I can't live with regret. The past is the past. I'm not worried about it. I can't change it. I can't fix it. It is what it is. I'm just living.

The world is just waiting to be skated.

Whatever sport you choose, do it because you love it, and don't expect to be an expert first thing. It takes time to do well at anything, but if you love it, you'll stick with it.

I am always hurt, but what are you going to do? I have to skate.

I like skateboarding. I'm here on this planet to skateboard; I feel this is what God wants me to do. I just live it. I get hurt all the time. I break bones. It's just all part of the process.

I live to ride, and ride to live.

No one can tell me what to do on my skateboard. My skateboard is my safe spot. I can learn tricks, I can have fun, I can do whatever I want on my skateboard.

Every time somebody calls me out or tries to start something, it's motivation.

My whole life has been the skate life. I don't really remember doing anything besides skateboarding.

There is no limit to the extent of the potential that is open to you.

I had to decide what I was going to do, and what I was going to be.I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something, till I realised the person I was waiting for was myself.

The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating.

There's something funny about being on a big stage and not making a big effort to fill it up.

Whenever I write about motherhood - and I write about it a lot - I am drawing on my experiences as a mother and also my experiences as a daughter.

I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.

I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy.

When you are writing, you are - from society's point of view - only producing the first version which will then be processed and recycled.

[The Federal Convention] is really an assembly of demigods.

When our assists lead to baskets, that's us playing our best, and we begin knocking down shots.