Speak up when you're supposed to, as opposed to trying to write prescriptions for the way people should live.

I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug beefs.

I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.

I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something.

Every time I've learned something, I've realized there are a hundred more things I don't know about the thing I just learned.

Living by example - that's always a better teacher than trying to preach.

It's important to keep the people who know you well around you. It helps center you.

We're really trying to give people the ability to go into a darkened room and have a couple hours of just pure enjoyment.

When I'm the person in front of the microphone, and I'm the person in the light, I want to reflect and refract the light onto places where they need the attention, where I don't need it.

If you look up and no one who's around you has been around you for the past 20 years, and they're all new people, I think that's a problem.

One truth that I know for sure, for me anyway, is that the more you know, the more you realize that you don't know.

Potency is defined as a hidden opportunity, ability, strength, being able to display itself in certain conditions

A clear vision makes the soul merry

Abolitionism was a movement to end private slavery. Libertarianism is a movement to end private and public slavery.

I like being the underdog so they don't expect what's going to happen. It pushes me to work harder and do the things I'm not doing better.

You think you know your possibilities. Then other people come into your life and suddenly there are so many more.

We're losing our companies; we're losing jobs; they devalue us out of business - China and these other countries.

Simple, yet effective!

The uncertainty of death is, in effect, the great support of the whole system of life.

Objection is when I say: this doesn't suit me. Resistance is when I make sure that what doesn't suit me never happens again.

Don't get down on yourself when you get rejection letters.