I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.

Remember, success is a journey not a destination. Have faith in your ability. You will do just fine.

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

The tastiest berries are often hidden.Do not despair if you haven't found true love.Look under the leaves and branches of convention.

Both the art of intuition and the science of analytics have the role to play in making wise decisions.

Everybody think they're famous when they get 100, 000 followers on Instagram and 5, 000 on Twitter.

Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.

I was essentially paid to perpetuate the myth that we are all, or should at least try to be, 17 and a size 2 forever.

I seem to myself, among civilized men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers.

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

...one is reminded that [John Kerry, D-MA] really just a better-looking Ted Kennedy, a richer Michael Dukakis.

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print

It's quite clear if you look at the actors in film right now, some of them came from theater but they didn't come from musical theater. There's still a bit of a stigma attached to it I would say.