I love bookstores. I love the energy in a bookstore and the smell of the paper.

People are not born heroes or villains; they’re created by the people around them.

A villain is just a victim whose story hasn’t been told.

When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sand paper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end, you end up polished and they end up useless.

If you truly own who you are, no one can use you against you.

I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me up with a cowboy hat and we'd go to the rodeo when I was younger and it traumatized me for life.

You can't shy away from your greatness just because you're afraid you're not great enough

Even in the worst of situations-even when it seems no one in the world appreciates you-as long as you have hope, everthing can get better

Courage is one thing that no one can ever take away from you.

To Grandma: Once upon a time, there was a boy who flew.

You don’t get to pick where you’re from, but you always have control of where you’re going.

If you did not live lovingly and love deeply, you would not feel the pain of separation. But neither would you feel the joy, passion, and happiness that living fully and loving deeply bring.

We all get lots of people. And maybe we don’t always get to have them the exact way we want them, but if we can figure out a way to compromise, you know, then we can keep them all.

Working a 40 hour work week is a very shallow and unfulfilling experience for many people.

I wish to be a product not a consumer.

Everything I have is for sale, except for my kids and possibly my wife.

I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, 'with four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.'

There are some agents who do a good job looking after players but there are others who stifle and mollycoddle them.

Desire can make anything into a god.

I do not know who lives here in my chest, or why the smile comes. I am not myself, more the bare green knob of a rose that lost every leaf and petal to the morning wind.

And Thou shalt never, but never be a bystander.