If anybody wants to be a rock star they've gotta try hard enough. They're not gonna get it handed to them
Every kid wants to reach their goals in life and be the best. During my Bruce Lee phase, I wanted to be the best martial artist in the world.
It was a revolving door that kept going in circles. I got to the point where I thought, "Man, none of this is doing it. " but I'd keep repeating the same actions. I'd go win another contest, open another company, invent a new maneuver.
I think I was around 15 when my Dad was 40 and thought, "Man he's old. There's no way I'll be skating at that age. "
The Bible says, "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him will not perish, but have everlasting life. " - John 3:16 and in that moment I realized, "Wow, there's a love greater than what I know of in this world. "
God always puts somebody in your life at the right moment.
I tried partying and going out, doing drugs and even dealing drugs to support my habit. I was hanging out with people from the underground who were doing illegal things all the time. I was experimenting with more and more drugs to the point where skateboarding was the last thing on my mind and my family was next to last.
Ninety-nine percent of all surprises in business are negative.
I am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.
God loves us deeply, perfectly, and everlastlingly.
UFOs: The reliable cases are uninteresting and in the interesting cases are unreliable.