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

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.

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.

If someone ever says you’re weird, say thank you.

Live each day with the very best of expectations.

The stony silence of death, trapped by the original gravity of our sins, and the perpetuity of a long, leisurely yawn, a world where blood and bone no longer matter.

When I write, what I long for is not more realism or fiction but more courage. That's what I always find myself short on and what I have to struggle to achieve in order that the work might live.

I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.

I'm not the comic of the generation, I'm not even the funniest guy in my family.

The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.

I am not of Virginia blood; she is of mine.

Sources also confirm that there is no one left in Canada who can remember when hockey was a simple game, played for fun.

Listening can be an antidote to judgement. Listening matters.

You are to become a creator, not a competitor; you are going to get what you want, but in such a way that when you get it every other man will have more than he has now.