Every person that you meet knows something you don't

History provides a great example but a terrible excuse.

Wisdom stems from personal accountability. We all make mistakes

There you are. A simple commandment. Not ten of them, just one: 'Thou shalt not eat.' (Personally, I wish the very first edict from God hadn't involved dieting, don't you?)

Mistakes are like bad loves

Wise is the woman who rises above her circumstances.

In every life story, including our own, decisions are made in haste that determine the course of eternity.

Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.

Be courageous! Never fear to take a chance.

Your goal is to launch an imperfect product and let people laugh at you.

You should have a value system. You can win if you stick with your value system.

It's good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that's better than you'd imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn't be as much fun.

The voice does go up in a poem. It is an address, even if it is to oneself.

I think ultimately that sense of hope is something that even as a little kid I was able to kind of grab onto.

It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label... Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.

I'm not playing myself. It's a symbolic situation, where I want to introduce a fascist behind the table. I couldn't have had anybody else do that; for it to be successful, I had to do it myself.

The bond was so strange at times. Jill was jealous on Adrian's behalf.