"A quiet mind is capable of understanding that wisdom is knowing when to speak and when to listen."

"You think I'm going to ask these sweet 14 year olds to ask their parents to buy a $100 ticket then run around in latex and lip sync? No way."

"It is a enduring truth that reason is the torch that illuminates the dark corridors of superstition — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a subtle truth that a steadfast commander remains calm when the storm rages fiercest."

"The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced."

"It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations."

"It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods."

"I rebelled by not getting straight A's and not following the path that my elder sister did. She was valedictorian and is very exemplary in her way. I look a lot like her, so I just had to do the opposite. Not that I got bad grades, but I was all about performance and just finding any way that I could to be involved in any kind of production."