Life is supposed to get tough.

I think it's your duty to overcome what you inherit in life.

My life is a party thrown for me by my own decisions.

Apologizes are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move, on you can grow.

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.

I got fired when I was a dishwasher at Denny's. That set me back a little bit. You don't realize how important dishwashers are until you do the job.

The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge.

I was brought up to never lie. Sure, I have. But in the final mix, the lies I've told are far outweighed by the truths I've lived.

The mark of a man is one who knows he can' control his circumstances - but he can control his responses.

I went and did some things [rehab], and then of course my life didn't change that much [for a while], but I never missed work.

I don't know if I'm addicted to fame; fame is more of an unpleasant circumstance of an addiction to creativity.

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

Action done totally brings relaxation

Politics is not a good location or a vocation for anyone lazy thin-skinned or lacking a sense of humour.

Don't let expertise fool you into seeing false boundaries or underestimating those with wild dreams.

We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow.

When you least feel like it, do something for someone else. You forget about your own situation. It gives you a purpose, as opposed being sorrowful and lonely.

Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst.

To be successful in life, you must get in the habit of turning negatives into positives.

He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.

Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.