Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime ignoring the control I have over my own world. Today is different.

I was also built from delusional optimism and folly.

Isn't it funny how we live inside the lies we believe?

I'm sorry, but I don't get it. If we're supposed to ignore everything that's wrong with our lives, then I can't see how we'll ever make things right.

As I load my shirt into the washer for the night, I daydream about making a sign and hanging it around my neck. I could wear it to school tomorrow. It could read, I MISS CHARLIE KHAN.

It also makes my father right again. How will I ever soar with the eagles if I'm surrounded by turkeys?

The trick is remembering that change is as easy as you make it. The trick is remembering that you are the boss of you.

She launched the airplane and it caught a current and circled down toward the town, like a promise of something good.

I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is. Which Zen guy said "If you want to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water"?

--he stopped and eyed Bill Corso--"if you choose to just sit here like a bored jungle gorilla, you will have to write out this quote as many times as you can during the next hour.

I wish for world peace, because it's about as likely to occur anything else I can wish for.

We have the right and the responsibility to be intolerant of those things which should not be tolerated.

In an ideal world, the amount of money we spend on medical research to prevent or cure a disease would be proportional to its seriousness and the number of people who suffer from it.

I love to swim. When I jump in the water, I feel like I'm 12 years old again. It's really funny how it does that to me.

You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?

I feel like I've been on EastEnders all my life and now I'm playing King Lear.

I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.

I went to college for a reason, and that was to skip the minor leagues. I spent a year in the minors and got my at-bats in, and then I felt like I was ready for the big leagues.

There's no way I can be tossed around like a bottle slapped here and there on the waves.

Conversations with my mother, father, my grandparents, as I've grown up have obviously driven me towards wanting to try and make a difference as much as possible.

The possession of facts is knowledge; the use of them is wisdom.