People choose the paths that grant them the greatest rewards for the least amount of effort.

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

You make decisions and choices, and you're never going to know if they're the ideal choices, but you make them and you make the most of them.

You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.

Only two things you ignore: things that aren't important and things you wish weren't important. And wishing never works.

Like I always say, there's no "I" in "team." There is a "me," though, if you jumble it up.

If we were to care about every person suffering on this planet, life would shut down.

You have to make changes before people are clamoring for changes. If people are asking for changes, it's too late.

You have to be driven by the stories that you want to tell. You can't simply be responding, or there won't be any real heart to those stories anymore.

The saying within the writer's room, which were my words of wisdom, if you will, was, "The punishment doesn't have to fit the crime, but there has to be a crime."

There are three choices in this life: be good, get good, or give up.

There are few things I hate more than feeling weak. Needing help or failing top the list. The worst, however, is knowing that all three just happened.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

The senses are our bridge between the incomprehensible and the comprehensible.

If I can look at your zip code and I can tell whether you're going to get a good education, we've got a real problem.

There are ten thousand aspects of your mind. Your awareness has ten thousand forms. There is something else. You have to step outside of perception itself.

Germany is very free-trade oriented.

Christ so loves his people that he sings with joy over them.

I never keep boys waiting. It's a hard trial for a boy to wait.

In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.