For, "Yes," he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings

There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.

Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

Success is a choice

When your life begins to harm you, know that you have taken a detour from your true path.

I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.

Art class was like a religious ceremony to me. I would wash my hands carefully before touching paper or pencils. The instruments of work were sacred objects to me.

If God hadn't meant us to hunt men, he wouldn't have given us Wonder Bras.

Bodybuilding is the closest we have to the fountain of youth.

I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.

It is how we choose what we do, and how we approach it, that will determine whether the sum of our days adds up to a formless blur, or to something resembling a work of art.

I'm not really sure what people's preconceived notions are. I don't look at the gossip websites - it's unhealthy and I think it's a large part of what drives people in L.A. crazy.

Sociology should... be thought of as a science of action-of the ultimate common value element in its relations to the other elements of action.