I can imagine there is going to come a time when someone will do 13 hours of a story without breaks.

I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

Stay true to your brand and true to your voice and audiences will respond to that authenticity with enthusiasm and passion.

People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.

The only thing worse than a loser is someone who won't admit he played badly.

You have to always be ready, always be alive, and always be willing to move in a new direction.

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.

We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

I think you need the failures to get the success. You learn more from that.

I needed to survive tonight to keep living my life as if nothing had happened.

Writing is dreaming for me, and I can dream most anywhere.

The more obsessively we focus on what a particular food is going to do for us, the less healthy we've become. Simple pleasures become complicated.

When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it

Every year law schools churn out thousands of lawyers. We don't need any more lawyers. We need more lawyers like we need more talk-show hosts.

Love is an aspect of being, and when you act from being, the power you draw on is limitless because it comes from the source.

Self-admiration giveth much consolation.

I will not have him in my brain;there is no room for anyone else in the cakeshop of agony. it's crowded enough in there already.

I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed.

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.