It really don't matter what you're thinking about, as long as you're thinking about something.

Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now.

Only the one who walks his own way can't be overtaken.

Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.

Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity.

The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs, never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you always feel to much.

All I want to be is normally insane.

Tell me, do you spend time with your family? Good. Because a man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.

If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so he must be willing to accept all experiences that life can offer.

Every time you get knocked down you get up stronger.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. Thats the essence of it.

Nobody intentionally sets out to fail or dwell in mediocrity.

Success is the byproduct of desires, purpose-oriented actions, and persistence.

Never stop learning, and always be ready to teach yourself things you don’t know. The only things you will remember are things you care about.

The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks

What the homosexual wants, and here he is neither willing to compromise nor morally required to compromise — is acceptance of homosexuality as a way of life fully on a par with heterosexuality.

But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes.

I think we can make a difference in the lives of the poor, and the millions.

Science is incapable of supplying answers to ultimate questions about why things exist and what their purpose is.