Inertia is so easy—don't fix what's not broken. Leave well enough alone. So we end up accepting what is broken, mistaking complaining for action, procrastinating for deliberation.

You would be surprised what two hours of daily exercise and five hundred stomach crunches can do for you.

Adventure in life is good; consistency in coffee even better.

He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: the shape of my fears, the contours of my dreams.

Forgiving others is easier when I remember that I'm human and stupid, too.

Getting lost is just another way of saying 'going exploring.

Come on, don't you ever stop and smell the coffee?

What would it be like to look in the mirror and actually accept what you see? Not loathe the reflection, or despise it, or be resigned to it? But to like it?

You raze the old to raise the new.

I didn't know that the world could be so mind-blowingly beautiful.

When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift.

Atheism is not a philosophy

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

That men should kill one another for want of somewhat else to do, which is the case of all volunteers in war, seems to be so horrible to humanity that there needs no divinity to control it.

Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.

Never do things for money. It's always the things you do for love that turn out to pay the best.

To the worker, God himself lends aid.

I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.

Money is not our primary aim. Changing the behavior and the practice of the gun industry is.

I love producing! It's so much fun to start with a blank canvas and create the picture you want to create and see it all come together.

It is the business of cavalry to follow up the victory, and to prevent the beaten army from rallying.