Sometimes you can't pay it back, so you just have to pay it forward.

The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.

When there’s an elephant in the room introduce him.

It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life, ... If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.

Don’t complain; just work harder.

Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.

Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.

The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!

If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add: 'All the time.'

Jews don't camp...The last time the Jews went camping, they spent forty years wandering in the desert.

Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.

Taking good pictures is easy. Making very good pictures is difficult. Making great pictures is almost impossible

I'm kind of effectively bipolar.

I hate all jobs. I've never had a job I liked.

Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.

Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.

The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review of Books, and substantial.

Did you love Annie right away, Finnick?" I ask. "No." A long time passes before he adds, "She crept up on me.

As Peter Bogdanovich would say of Paper Moon: Ryan's wonderful in it, and he sat there and watched the kid steal the picture.