Have you murdered anyone in the last day, week, month, year, decade? Probably not. Then don't worry about it. Give yourself a break. You're probably a really fine person.

I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.

Im going to be shaking my booty when Im 55.

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.

Cute is when your personality shines through your looks.

Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.

It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.

Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it.

There's no such thing as perfect people. There's no such thing as a perfect life. So come as you are, broken and scarred. Lift up your heart and be amazed and be changed by a perfect God.

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

Focus on exploring your intrinsic strengths, so as not to loose out on the virtues of life.

I'm not impressed by someone's degree... I'm impressed by them making movies.

I've certainly thought a lot more about things like tyranny and patriotism and violence. I think I found some kind of clarity - definitely a thicker understanding.

Because one has to be an optimist to begin an ambitious project, it is not surprising that underestimation of completion time is the norm.

Meditation is a process of liquefying the self temporarily and then allowing the self to rebind. The ice melts and then it comes back again.

Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.

My philosophy on running is, I don't dwell on it, I do it.

I want my arguments to be good arguments on the basis of what I actually have to say.

Believe me, a thousand friends suffice thee not; In a single enemy thou hast more than enough.

Just about every great, brave or beautiful thing in our culture was created by someone who didn't do it for money.