Playing to passion when you can will keep students motivated and working toward mastery.

The deepest truth however is, that no love begins unconditional, but the only one that grows to be it, is the one that survives the breaking of all conditions, yet standing tall.

Just because I wear black and keep a private journal, that doesn't mean I'm going to blow up the school. Or terrorize mindless cheerleaders, for that matter.

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

The worst thing you can do for anyone you care about is anything that they can do on their own.

I played football, honestly, to get a scholarship.

In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other.

Definitely I had a lot of times where I was really hard on myself. Really frustrated. But I never felt like I had someplace else to go. Just had to stay here and deal with this.

Remember, children. For every exit, there is also an entrance. ~ Milligan, The Mysterious Benedict Society

A hand as fruitful as the land that feeds us; His dew falls everywhere.