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 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.

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.

What I can control is how I react. I can't control anything else.

Time wasters are life wasters

Each Fable is inspired by some true stories which doesn't have an happy ending, unlike the Fable.

Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.

the moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy

I don't feel opportunistic ever, in anything.

He actually listened, rather than pretending to listen while waiting a suitable interval before it was his time to talk again.

Her mind emptied of everything but the gusting wind and how fragile Wolf looked in that heartbeat, like one movement could break him open.

My feelings - as usual - we will slaughter them all.

in a socialist country you can get rich by providing necessities, while in a capitalist country you can get rich by providing luxuries.

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.