It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time.

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

I take it not only a day at a time, but a moment at a time, and keep it at that pace. If you can be happy right now, then you’ll always be happy, because it’s always in the now

If you wait for tomorrow to follow your dreams, by the time that you get there they're gone.

If you’re not crazy there’s something wrong with you. Willie Nelson

There is only one map to the journey of life and it lives within your heart

The biggest killer on the planet is stress and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis.

Be gentle with your words - you can't take them back.

Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there.

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

If you can be content right now, then you'll always be content, because it's always right now.

Rejecting predatory capitalism in America is a way to respect and honor America.

My beloved Mom and Pop always rated tops with each other, and that's the way it will always be.

Malaysia didn't end up winning any gold medals at the Rio Olympics, but had set new records and brought the nation closer, so keep going.

It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.

I don't believe in overdoing myself.

When I go in to the recording studio, I already know almost exactly what I am going to do, but when I go to set, it is really a wildcard. I have no idea what is going to happen.

My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.

To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing.

It's not the man who pushes himself the hardest... it's the man who pushes himself the hardest after it gets painful.

Seeing a movie you're in is nothing like seeing a movie you're not in.