I would tell myself the same thing that I continue to tell myself today, which is don't sweat the small things.

Don't forget where you came from and treat people a certain way.

I'm always going to be looking for something artistically or whatever. I think that's part of being driven, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm unhappy.

I stumble all the time parenting my daughter. I ask her for forgiveness all the time and I preach forgiveness to her.

I have the greatest fans. I have fans that come from soap opera world, I have fans that come from superhero world, which are a whole different section of fans. They're so cool.

I'm still waiting for somebody to wake me up.

I don't have a gardener because I enjoy pulling weeds. It's hard to explain but there is something fulfilling about pulling out a weed and knowing that you got all the roots.

I love acting, and so whenever I get the opportunity to act, I'm happy. I'm easy to please when it comes to that kind of stuff. I don't know what I'd do without it.

I have no problem at all taking my shirt off to tell a story.

We all get pigeon-holed or put in a box, no matter what that might be.

Sometimes we'll only see each other in passing, like ships passing in the night.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.

It isn't that black people are protected in America by the left; it's that black liberals are protected just as female liberals are protected, not conservatives.

No one ever died with too much money.

When you lose the gayborhoods, you lose the political power that comes when you're concentrated in precincts, and you also lose the cultural vitality.

When gratitude has become a matter of reasoning there are many ways of escaping from its bonds.

Alloted duty means you should live full potentiality with which you are born.

Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.

Life and death: they are one, at core entwined. Who understands himself from his own strain presses himself into a drop of wine and throws himself into the purest flame.

Quiet time is the key. We have hundreds of thousands of kids around the country meditating through the David Lynch Foundation.