There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.

If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing.

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

I had a blind date with a dentist — and he told me to come back in six months.

Comparison is waste of energy. Every individual is unique with unique talents. Find your passion and live your best life.

Greatness awaits those who can rise from their greatest failures.

If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.

I don't have a feeling of inferiority. Never had. I'm as good as anybody, but no better.

The unwilling mind is not a teachable mind.

I'm just looking always for characters that change, because I want to get better, as an actor and as a person.

Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity.

The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world.

If you experience chronic difficulties in a particular area of your life, there's a strong chance that the root of the problem is a failure to accept reality as it is.