If it were not for people who stepped forward and gave me opportunities at a time when I had not proved myself at all, believe me, I would not have a career.

I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

Stay true to your brand and true to your voice and audiences will respond to that authenticity with enthusiasm and passion.

People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.

The only thing worse than a loser is someone who won't admit he played badly.

You have to always be ready, always be alive, and always be willing to move in a new direction.

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.

We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

I think you need the failures to get the success. You learn more from that.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.

Arson, property destruction, burglary, and theft are 'acceptable crimes' when used for the animal cause.

In the end, I'd loved him enough to let go. From afar, I would love him forever.

You may be in a tough time but that setback is simply a setup for a greater comeback.

A sudden gust: How big the world seems in a wind.

If everyone will try to understand the core of his own religion and adhere to it, and will not allow false teachers to dictate to him, there will be no room left for quarrelling.

God is within you. God is a nice feeling. He's the flowers and smells and the nice things in life.

I don't do much of anything consciously in writing - in poetry writing, anyway, prose usually being a different matter, of course.

The power to regulate the value of money does not involve a power to dilute the value of money by inflation, an absurd and self-serving rendering.