Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone - they just don't do it.

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

If any of you are related to our main guest let me know so I can speak slowly.

Children's books are by nature partisan.

Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionaries.

They live too long who happiness outlive.

I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim.

I read once that the true mark of a pro - at anything - is that he understands, loves, and is good at even the drudgery of his profession.

All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

Taking delight in the journey takes confidence. It pushes the envelope of design.

A wise man sings his joy in the closet of his heart.

I think when you look to the future what you'll find is that the Republican Party is building a bigger party base on stronger values.