Dream big, stay positive, work hard, and enjoy the journey.

I’m a guy that creates my own destiny in this world. Until I’m off the planet, there’s always a second chance.

Living the dream is simply a form of living out your passion, of making that passion gradually, through persistence and effort, a central part of your life.

Good health is true wealth.

Dream impossible dreams. When those dreams come true, make the next ones more impossible.

There are two things that you have to do in life: You have to die, and you have to live until you die. The rest is up to you.

Positive thinking breeds success.

Passion is what you would do if you got to choose. It's what you think about doing in the privacy of your own mind, without ear of dismissal or mockery.

Living the dream is simply a form of living your passion.

Negativity takes no imagination. It's far easier to criticize someone's decisions after they make them than to propose better ones beforehand.

There's no such thing as a lost cause, or a dead end. Through persistence, attitude, and creativity, there's always an escape route.

The prayer of a trained theurgist is like the majestic flow of a large river but an ignorant and weak person can produce only something similar to an irregular trickle from a half-clogged tap.

The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.

I've got friends in low places, where the whiskey drowns and the beer chases my blues away.

Compulsive eating is only the symptom; believing that you are not worth your own love is the problem. Go for the love. You will never be sorry.

You rarely find someone who sings really well and who produces really well; it's a problem, and I just think it's a missing link in the music scene.

When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.

I'm difficult for management. That's why I have the reputation because nobody challenges management.

My parents are really conservative. My dad is Muslim, and my mom is the most conservative woman you've ever met. They're very aristocratic in the most quaint suburban way.

The choices and decisions we make in terms of how we use the land ultimately affect our very DNA. Environmental issues are life issues.

The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.