I'm obsessed with trying to understand what somebody is talking about and trying to get them to understand me.

Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.

Man shall not live by bread alone.

I know who I am. And after all these years, there's a victory in that.

The unsaid rule for living in a trailer park is: 'If the door's shut, don't come a-knockin.' But if it's open and you're walkin' by, feel free to say, 'Hello.'

It's a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates.

The older you get, the more rules they’re gonna try to get you to follow. You just gotta keep livin’ man, l-i-v-i-n’

Give thanks. Appreciate what you DO have ... the more we give thanks, the more we receive to be thankful for. Gratitude is the gift that always gives back.

Life is not fair, it never was and it is now and it won't ever be. Do not fall into the trap. The entitlement trap, of feeling like you're a victim. You are not.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It's also the dangerous part and it's an ugly emotion that hurts.

There's a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.

Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now.

One who cannot swim must not blame the water.

My soul is my soul.

I will be deafer than the blue-eyed cat, And thrice as blind as any noonday owl, To holy virgins in their ecstasies.

Genius has its fatality. Must we not see in its works a manifestation of the will of Providence?

Don't you feel a change a coming From another side of time, Breaking down the walls of silence, Lifting shadows from your mind.

Because I'm a democrat! The will of the people is sovereign.

An abusive relationship should be easy to identify though often one of the most difficult to end.

For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio.

I was once walking in an airport and a woman came up to me and said, 'Be zany!'. That'd be like walking up to Baryshikov and going, 'Plie! Just do a plie! Do it! Do a releve right now! Lift my wife!'