I don't know if I'm addicted to fame; fame is more of an unpleasant circumstance of an addiction to creativity.

I think it's your duty to overcome what you inherit in life.

My life is a party thrown for me by my own decisions.

Apologizes are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move, on you can grow.

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.

I got fired when I was a dishwasher at Denny's. That set me back a little bit. You don't realize how important dishwashers are until you do the job.

The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge.

I was brought up to never lie. Sure, I have. But in the final mix, the lies I've told are far outweighed by the truths I've lived.

The mark of a man is one who knows he can' control his circumstances - but he can control his responses.

I went and did some things [rehab], and then of course my life didn't change that much [for a while], but I never missed work.

What I can control is how I react. I can't control anything else.

You are old beyond your years Zoeybird. Believe in yourself and you will find a way. But remember darkness does not always equate to evil just like light does not always bring good.

If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

For the longest time I was just trying to find someone to love as much as I loved you, but now I realize that’s never going to happen....

Love flies out the door when money comes innuendo.

In real life, every field of science is incomplete, and most of them - whatever the record of accomplishment during the last 200 years - are still in their very earliest stages.

Еhe older you get, the more baggage you have, and the harder it is to just split.

In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their technical methods.

Discovering what you really want saves you endless confusion and wasted energy.

This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons peas; And utters it again when God doth please: He is wit's pedler; and retails his wares.

If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.