"The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been."

"Being miserable is easy. Being happy is tougher and cooler."

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."

"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same."

"I think if I was drafted, I'd suddenly show up in Canada, whose politics endear to me. I'd have no quarrel with fighting and possibly dying for a place like Canada, but the US is simply a cesspool."