A soul's ugliness can be much more ambitious than her beauty.

You and I have been friends long enough to know how to treat each other . . . I'm leaving for college. I think I've outgrown the rules.

Gear is money, and if there’s one thing we know about Hollywood, it’s that money talks.

I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'

In the past, I was working out too heavy.

You got to hidey-hide, you got to jump and run again. You got to hide-hidey-hide, the old man is down the road.

The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven.

I have a different starting premise from those 100 academics who are so heavily invested in the regime of low expectations and narrow horizons which they have created.

Part of living is understanding where the fringes are. Once you know how far people go, you can say, "Well, here's how I choose to represent myself."

Successful innovation has consistently proved to be fluid and flexible, fast and furious - that is, passionate.

Not that you need to be a saint to have visions worth talking about. The most effective prescription, I suspect, is to be a disciplined sinner. Perfection, as Valery noted, is work.