Independent thinking alone is not suited to interdependent reality.

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of the solution, not the problem.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.

Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

You can twist perception, reality won't budge

All art is quite useless.

I just being able to write songs I'm proud of and finding some women to play with is exciting.

What matters is the imaginative truth.

Word, image, and sound all must have primacy in the development of the narrative.

Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give.

Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.

Action films are emotionally and physically draining, and you're dirty and sweaty. In a romantic comedy, you have to have your fingernails perfect, you're in air-conditioned rooms the whole time.

A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.

There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet.