As much as he liked the idea of having best friends with whom he could share anything. it was like all he knew how to be was alone, apart.

If someone tells you you're crazy enough times, eventually it becomes true. It's that old psychiatrist's joke: insanity's all in your head.

You must learn to take a step back and visualize the whole piece. If you focus only on the thread given to you, you lose sight of what it can become.

Give us men to match our mountains Give us men to match our plains: Men with empires in their purpose And new eras in their brains.

We are what we repeatedly do.

Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

Soup's on and I got a coupon. Chinese restaurant asking for the Grey Poupon. He said "No, duck sauce, soy sauce... And this ain't no Burger King, so you no get no toy, boss."

Trying to talk through and figure out new answers really helps me figure out more about what I'm doing - and what we're all doing.

I would suggest your awareness is your karma. How you feel generates your level of attention.

No matter who the characters are, you can strip them down and find small universal truths.

This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people.