At the end of our lives we all ask, did i live? Did i love? Did i matter?

No matter how small you start, start something that matters.

Optimists are happier in life for a reason.

No matter your position, circumstances, or opportunities in life, you always have the freedom of mind to choose how you experience, interpret, and, ultimately, shape your world.

There are only two types of change: Something new comes into your life, or something new comes out of you.

The time you want the map... is before you enter the woods

Successful people take their current limitation and put it on their agenda as a job to do, as a thing to figure out and make happen.

The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.

Ask not what you are getting from the world but, rather, what you are giving to the world.

The more we are true to ourselves, the more we can connect with and contribute to the world.

Ambition has to be joined with expectancy. A sense that you have a dream for yourself that you believe can happen.

silence is not weakness and decency is not pride

Your spiritual path isn't always just something you find, you started it the moment you took your first breath, and ever since you're been getting closer and closer to remembering who you truly are!

Greediness of getting more deprives ... the enjoyment of what it had got.

Talk is cheap...It is the way we organize and use our lives everyday that tells what we believe in.

After all, that is what laws are for, to be made and unmade.

I hate these people, the Rams and their owner, Georgia Frontiere, for what they did, taking the Rams logo with them when they moved to St. Louis. That logo belonged to Southern California.

I was in a two-person show [with Oliver Ralli] called the Midwesterners where we wrote all of our own stuff and we traveled the country with it. That's what eventually led me to L.A.

I'm severely conservative.

Creative freedom is determined by how we behold the world. Any one of us can make new things with our perceptions that serve as doorways to the creative imagination. No one is excluded.

I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give people inspiration for the future.