I was sort of a sissy as a little kid.

I think we are a product of all our experiences.

Details create the big picture.

You can't control income. It varies based on conditions outside of [your] control. But you can control expenses.

I believe in giving back very strongly.

And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City.

I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline.

You never want to think the best things are in the past. You want to get yourself to believe that the best things are going to be in the future.

A lot of people at Shearson ended up making a lot of money because they had stock or stock options. Their kids were able to go to college, and it changed a lot of people's lives.

My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade.

Learn how to be a loser, because it's important to be a loser to be a winner.

Be blessed.

i am open + free to create in abundance. i am deserving of my own love + it comes in the form of art.

Everything is going to be all right. Miracles happen everyday.

If God were good, why would he create Rush Limbaugh?

If we can augment our gift giving by giving more of ourselves to those we love, all the time and in various ways, we will have a good chance of helping them and ourselves live happier, better lives.

Is there no Villain in this World who doth not regard himself as a poor abus'd Innocent, no She-Wolf who doth not think herself a Lamb, no Shark who doth not fancy that she is a Goldfish?

Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.

I suffer from the curse of being multi-talented. There's no doubt about it. Politics and literature have gotten in the way of songwriting.

I started studying filmmakers, and I would say early on the ones that really inspired me the most were like the field magicians of music videos.

Choose to be who you are. . . The individual who would become a person must at some point take over his entire being - must, that is, choose herself.