I am crazy but I found a way to steer it into ways I think are very productive.

Books are a staircase to unknown worlds.

You need to believe in your passion, no matter how stupid or insane that might make you look to the rest of the world.

Being awesome really comes down to having confidence.

What do you want for your life? And how are you going to get it? Figure that out. And then follow me to gloryville.

Everyone can be awesome if they want it bad enough. And I don't believe that anyone wants to be average. I think everybody desires greatness, at least at some point in their life.

Fantasy stories will always be popular, as there are always readers who are willing to escape, freely, to the worlds that the authors create, and spend time with the characters we give life to.

A book can open the mind, free the heart, and speak to the soul.

Most of the awesome people I know are just normal people who were insanely driven.

The best thing about money is not worrying about money.

Do not pick up the pen unless you understand how heavy it is, and how long you may carry it for.

Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.

There are a lot of smart honest, progressive people who I think can be good presidents.

The function of an ideal is not to be realized but, like that of the North Star, to serve as a guiding point.

My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.

When people realize that they have been forgiven of everything, it becomes a little bit easier for them to forgive others.

Our prison population quintupled in a thirty year period of time. Not doubled or tripled - quintupled. We went from a prison and jail population of about 300,000 to now more than 2 million.

Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.

Occasionally people will look at me and do a double take and theyll look at me like theyre trying to think where they know me from.

I think most conflicts do end with negotiated settlements; some don't, but most do.

It’s entirely up to you, Artie. He lives or dies by your word. (Acheron) No, akri! Don’t ask her that. She never let me have no fun. She a mean goddess! (Simi)