If I signed a contract that meant someone else wouldn't be playing.

I always try to individualize everything, every person. I see individuals and that's why I've never fallen for racism, or any type or classification of people.

We didn't call it a sport necessarily, and skaters definitely weren't thought of as athletes, we were thought of as misfits.

I desire to have a dialogue that's positive, and communicative and moves forward, and is about something real, not just consumption.

When I got sponsored, it symbolized a major change and a major shift in skateboarding.

I feel like the best thing, as far as what I do with kids, is I treat them like human beings.

Everything that I'm really about is being an individualist. I believe in individuality.

I grew up with heroes, people who made me aspire to raise my game, to dream bigger and I like to keep it that simple.

If someone told me I had to give back, or I'm supposed to give back, or I'm supposed to do these things, I would reject that. My actions are those of valuing and caring.

I'm not going to beat somebody up for talking smack to me, especially another skater.

Where I'm coming from is that nothing I do is from a sense of obligation.

Prayer opens the window of heaven.

Take my advice: live your life to the fullest. Breathe the air, taste the wine, kiss the girls, and always remember that the tales of another are never as wondrous as your own.

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

You made one mistake. You married me.

Experience first, then intellectualize.

Every child is different. Every child responds in a different way.

Compassion is a Shepherd, Always tending his herd.

There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.

People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.

All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words.