I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.

In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.

You live your life today, Not tommorow, and certainly not yesterday.

Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.

Jesus preached more and taught more about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry than he did about heaven and hell. Shouldn't that tell us something?

When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.

If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.

When you work at street level you never know who's going to walk through your door.

Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.

judge not that ye be not judged

Positive thoughts, positive self-image.

Life is merely a series of moments and is in fact an unflinching serial killer, since it kills steadily each moment one after the other. Memory is the only survivor. (“Just for a moment”)

Steve Jobs is a national treasure. He is so visionary, and so bright. I had to fire him, though.

Stencils are good for two reasons; one - they're quick; two - they annoy idiots.

A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.

Were we not proud ourselves, we should not complain of the pride of others.

The world of time, of space and condition, pleasure and pain, birth, growth, maturation, decay and death, spinning, spinning, spinning this world, always spinning.

If you always use your stapler in one place, keep it there, instead of thinking that all the office supplies should go in one place. I've moved a lot of things around in my house because of that.

I'm very inspired by nature - you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get all kinds of inspiration daily.

To look in the mirror and like what you see, even when it doesn't look like your idea of beauty.