You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

That's what college is for - getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you're forced into the real world. I keep a checklist of 'em on the wall in my room.

There are two ways to pass a hurdle: leaping over or plowing through... There needs to be a monster truck option.

If only corporal punishment cured low self-esteem.

Bachelor's degrees make pretty good placemats if you get 'em laminated.

The quickest way to a man's heart really is through his stomach, because then you don't have to chop through that pesky rib cage.

The TV Tropes QC page is every single idiotic comment from my forums distilled into one HTML document.

The trick to writer's block is to sack up and write through it, you see.

Your whole life people tell you to do what you love. But if you gotta do something else to pay the bills, you don't automatically have to be miserable.

Spontaneous kindness is to hipsters as high beams are to deer.

Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.

Unlike Muir and Thoreau, McCandless went into the wilderness not primarily to ponder nature or the world at large but, rather, to explore the inner country of his own soul.

There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay and this is common to the entire universe.

I take everything I learned from the streets and put it in my NBA game.

I want to be here with you, Avery. You don't have to worry about impressing me or wowing me. You've already done that.

Its OK to grow up, just as long as you don't grow old. Face it you are young.

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

Among the gifts of serving others, then, is that we ourselves find our place of belonging.

A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing.

Holding auditions in front of an audience is testing.