My favourite member of the Beatles is Lennon. He might have been crazy. But he's my kind of crazy.

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned

The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

Be a problem solver

Why settle for an unsuccessful life when living successfully is already an option in your life's journey?

Nothing truly dies. All energy simply transforms.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me.

Playing without a concurrent critical review of one's skills will simply get you nowhere.

It is a bizarre world. It is an upside down, inside out, quantum physics world. It is the eve of destruction in America.

God loves you because He has chosen to do so.

I'm an only child, and after making the movie [Yours, Mine and Ours], I know it would be awesome to have 17 brothers and sisters in real life.

They say, 'To serve is to love,' and I think to serve is to heal, too.