"Keep thou an open door between thy child's life and thine own."

“To be honest, I've never had an easy relationship with being a writer, though I persist.”

“Only mind has sight and hearing; all things else are deaf and blind.”

“I'm bald, blind and pale. I'm like a gigantic recessive gene.”

“Get your calculators out, this will be fun!”

“I don't think of music as being a competition - what I make is exactly what I want it to be for me, and it's not better or worse than anything else. I'm just trying to be the best at what I am, or that I possibly can be. And when I've done that, I feel incredibly confident and there's nothing anyone can see to dampen that, but I don't think that because it means something to me, it has to necessarily mean something to other people.”

Source : Source: brightestyoungthings.com

“Being in the limelight with 'Glee,' I've definitely felt pressure to stay fit. But honestly, you have to ignore it.”

“Stand-up comedy is a raunchy profession.”

“The best way to protect your own freedom is to watch everybody else's back. That's the essence of community.”

Source : Bode Miller (2005). “Bode: Go Fast, Be Good, Have Fun”, p.284, Villard