Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity.

Never underestimate the stimulation of eccentricity.

It's always painful when you're writing memoirs because you've got to go through the dark places, but it gives you a chance to find out the person you really are, not the person you thought you were.

Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.

I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.

I was constantly being dragged out of movies for laughing too loud.

The trees are born, they develop their leaves and fruits, they grow and die. I can't ever understand why a tree is a "what" and not a "who".

Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a perennial loser.

All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.

And if it can’t be fun, what’s the point?

There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.

Recognition is the most inexpensive, easy-to-use motivational technique available to management.

He's not human; he's an empty space disguised as a human.

I believe that management should focus on two particular areas. One is Gemba (shop floor) and the other is customer (not the shareholder).

I'm like a little boy from Virginia. I'm a backpacker. In my head, I'm left of centre. I come from the pool of weirdoes.