The world we see is a painting colored by our fears and desires.

Success is taking what you know, and creating the best you that you can be.

Forgiveness is the process of dropping off your emotional baggage.

Don't tell me about your effort. Show me your results

Those not chasing their dreams should stay out of the way of those who are.

Your mind is your prison when you focus on your fear.

It is better to know what to fear than to say 'no fear.'

When you learn from the past, you're liberated from it.

Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.

Opportunity doesn't make appointments, you have to be ready when it arrives.

Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.

Are we not witnessing a strange tableau of survival whenever a bird alights on the head of a crocodile, bringing together the evolutionary offspring of Triassic and Jurassic?

Write because you love it, not because you want to become rich. Your story will be better for it.

But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.

It's fun to play characters in songs. I can just cheat a little bit... be this person for just a small amount of time and just help vent that idea.

With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.

Characterization is an accident that flows out of action and dialogue.

I also want to return to doing stand-up. I've become frightened of live audiences. This is a really telling sign that I need to go back on the comedy circuit again.

At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.

There are some lives duller Than dusty glass