I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.

Romance often begins by a splashing waterfall and ends over a leaky sink.

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.

I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon.

It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting.

Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.

Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost.

Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

The number one way culture is shaped is by what leaders model.

Do you really enjoy living a life that's so hateful? 'Cause there's a hole where your soul should be, you're losing control of it, and it's really distasteful.

A love of writing is far greater than any word count.

All God makes is good. Can it be that that which seems to oppose the will of God actually is used of Him to accomplish the will of God?

He who knows himself knows god.

Philosophers tend to radically underestimate the distance between abstract principles (such as "reduce suffering") and what it might actually mean for people to act on them.

The first ideas of religion arose, not from contemplation of the works of nature, but from a concern with regard to the events of life.

I think that one of the questions that I asked of myself in later years was to this point of the political directive.

But I found tai chi when I was studying with Leung Shum, who teaches Eagle Claw and Wu Hao.

I like to pretend that I'm a tough guy. It's kind of an admission of defeat if I have to ask for help - or even kindness. But if it doesn't come, at some point I snap and demand it.