Leaders inspire. They aren't assigned leadership. They command it.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You're going to get to her somehow, some way.

In life you have three options with any situation that is a challenge. Remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it.

Instead of being ashamed of what you've been through, be proud of what you have overcome!

Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere.

You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I'm going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that's OK.

If you don't have a plan, days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, months turn into years, and before you know it you're looking back saying, I should've had a plan.

People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.

Unless you know who you are, you will always be vulnerable to what people say.

People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.

One of the happiest moments of life is when you learn to love without expecting any return.

In politics, if you're explaining, you're loosing.

To each his own. A billion Buddhas. A billion streams of wisdom. All smiling in their anguish.

I like to go to anybody else's birthday, and if I'm invited I'm a good guest. But I never celebrate my birthdays. I really don't care.

There are other tracks that are more reliant upon the beat. Like nobody's going to sit there and play "Harlem Shake" on the guitar!

We need to discover the root causes of success rather than the root causes of failure.

We live in a house of mirrors and think we are looking out the windows.

It's surprising how often history is decided by something as trival as bad shellfish.

We may have made one of the biggest and most stupid collective mistakes in history by getting so worried about global warming.

I'm not some movie star relying on a studio. I have my own fans and I earned them.