"The evangelist is the world's hopeless romantic, and just like a hopeless romantic, he must hope for the miracle of God more than the romance itself."

“And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?”

“Idleness, indifference and irresponsibility are healthy responses to absurd work.”

Source : "Punished by Rewards: Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes". Book by Alfie Kohn, p. 205, 1999.

“I have the physique a lot of people dream about having. It's my obligation to share it with the world.”

“A little criticism makes me angry, and a little rejection makes me depressed. A little praise raises my spirits, and a little success excites me. It takes very little to raise me up or thrust me down. Often I am like a small boat on the ocean, completely at the mercy of its waves. All the time and energy I spend in keeping some kind of balance and preventing myself from being tipped over and drowning shows my life is mostly a struggle for survival: not a holy struggle, but an anxious struggle resulting from the mistaken idea that it is the world that defines me.”

“At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn.”

“Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.”

“Boeing is working on an invisible fighter jet so nobody can see who's flying it. Didn't George Bush fly this in the National Guard, I believe?”

“You are your dreams. Your dreams are what you can become, so don't stop dreaming and believing. Just Do It!”