It's funny as I get older I'm reverting to my roots - I want to plant stuff.

As a teenager I went all Goth, but I wasn't mopey enough. I would pretend to be, but I'd end up making people laugh.

I've never felt like I needed to change. I've always thought, 'If you want somebody different, pick somebody else.'

There’s a greatness in not caring what people think

Hollywood wants to make women so perfect. Perfect hair. Perfect job. Perfect manners... I know some of the most beautiful women, and they are so weird. That's what makes them funny and captivating.

I watch HGTV like a maniac, and when it's bad, it's like some crazy college guy watching a football game.

I don't associate with people who blame the world for their problems. You are your problem. You are also your solution.

You just have to say, 'It’s pretty damn good. I am right here at the moment and I’m OK with it. I've got other things to think about.'

Even when someone gets to looking like she should be so proud of herself, instead she's like, 'I could be another three pounds less; I could be a little taller and have bigger lips.'

It's like I'm managing to achieve all this success in spite of my affliction ... Would you ever put that in the headline for a male star?

I could eat healthier, I could drink less. I should be learning another language and working out more, but I'm just always saying, 'Ah, I could get hit by a bus tomorrow.'

An Oak tree is a daily reminder that great things often have small beginnings.

Not all marriages are made in heaven. Some, probably most, are constructed here on earth for any number of reason.

Our squalid society rushed, Narcissus to a man, to gaze on its trivial image on a scrap of metal.

Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.

Get ready; if the Democrats take the House, your taxes are going up.

Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

The first author I remember being obsessed by, actually realizing 'I like the way he writes and I like the way he tells stories,' was C.S. Lewis and the 'Narnia' books.

Raising the minimum wage allows business people to stop thinking about workers simply as costs to be cut and allows you to start thinking about workers as customers to be cultivated.

This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city in the world of reality.