“It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you, It's what you leave behind you when you go.”

“It's not what you take but what you leave behind that defines greatness.”

“In the beginning, doing other than yelling when you are angry will be extremely difficult. But each time you succeed, the new pathway is strengthened. Eventually the urge to yell is so small that it's easy to ignore”

“Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.”

“Things like this don't happen back in Libertyville, Illinois. You don't get lost in the woods behind your house.You don't get trapped inside a fortress-like wall ten feet tall.”

“You can be one of the smartest students in this school if you actually listened to what was being said and stopped focussing so much on how everything affects you.”

“What you think you know don’t mean nothin.There is a difference between thinking and knowing. You might think you know something; you might even think you know it pretty well. But there are some things that you can’t ever know without having lived them. Without doing, thinking does not become knowing.”