The best discipline, maybe the only discipline that really works, is self- discipline.

Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.

Keep skid chains on your tongue. Say less than you think. Cultivate a pleasant voice. How you say it is often more important than what you say.

The most difficult part of dating as a single parent is deciding how much risk your own child's heart is worth.

The best way to understand this whole issue is to look at what the government does: it takes money from some people, keeps a bunch of it, and gives the rest to other people.

I wanted to get us a place of our own with a little bit more space. The kitchen is just huge, because my mom... lives there, man, and she loves being in the kitchen.

I'm not a fast, stream-of-consciousness lyricist at all - I know some guys who are, and if there is one skill I wish I had, it's that.

Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.

We're going to become the martians when we land there. When we explore and build communities, we become the martians. That's a wonderful destiny for all of us.

Are there grounds now and then for an unironic smile?

The same things happen to quite an extent around the globe. I mean, the European banks were doing what the American banks were.