“I feel like I keep so much more to myself now than I used to. With age and experience you learn to trust people a lot less. It’s a sad reality.”

"People often describe me as short for my age, I prefer to think I'm fun sized."

"Since I came to Groton, people have been using this school as an excuse for my changing personality, when really they don't know half of me."

"On the mountain, you are merely a tiny life form bound to the immense power of nature. A single rock or snowball has the power to become the landslide or the avalanche that kills you. Hidden crevasses...

"When I was a kid, Wally’s age maybe, I used to invite the other kids in my neighborhood over to my house to play “school.” It was my house, so I was the teacher of course and I would give my friends...

"I think the happiest moments in my life have been the births of my two younger siblings. I have no idea what I'd do without them. No one else can make me smile like them, and no one else knows me better....

"My favorite place on earth is the ocean itself. When I'm sailing with my family, alone on the water, all my worries go away." Richie's "first caption choice": "My biggest regret is losing the squirrel...

"What’s your biggest regret?" "Not always having the guts to take advantage of all of the great opportunities life throws at me."

"I think the strangest thing that's happened to me is when someone in a penguin suit chased me out if the schoolhouse one Saturday afternoon. I'm still scarred."

"What do you want to do when you grow up?" "I want to do whatever will make me happy. And then find a way to make money for it."