Stop being perfect, because obsessing over being perfect stops you from growing.

I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.

You must lose everything in order to gain anything.

In Missouri, where I come from, we don't talk about what we do - we just do it. If we talk about it, it's seen as bragging.

I embrace the messiness of life. I find it so beautiful actually.

I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there.

Man, when I'm riding with the helmet on, I'm invisible. And people just deal with me as the guy on the bike... it gives you a chance to read 'em.

I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it.

The things you own end up owning you.

Do you know how you tell real love? It's when someone else's interest trumps your own.

Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.

When you have endure the worse situations, you build the courage and confidence to cope with any other situations.

I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.

Health care in America must be a right, not a privilege.

I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.

We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves.

I believe in deeply ordered chaos

Singing is best, it gives right joy to speech.

In that endless time, we are born in the same age. In that infinite space, to be able to meet and become one with you, that fate is really amazing and the miracle is really beautiful.

Believe it or not, Japanese is actually easier than some European languages!

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.