What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don't think I could write a novel. I don't think I have it in me to come up with those kinds of characters.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.

Before you go to bed, write down three 'gratefuls' for the day and three 'did wells' (they can even include something as simple as doing the laundry)-the results can be amazing!

It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.

You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can't say I'm glad to go through pain, but in a way one must, in order to gain courage and really feel joy.

If someone tells you that you cannot do something and you believe it, they are right.

It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.

It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.

No one ever said life was fair. Just Eventful.

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

Be positive. Stay happy and don't let the negativity of the world get you down.

Money is not only the motivating factor, most of the time powerful positive words do

But his eyes say what he can’t. I see it, clear as day, even if she doesn’t. He’d give up his wings for her. All she’d have to do is ask.

How fit he is to sway That can so well obey.

Mother was the disciplinarian, but it was Daddy who could turn me into an angel with just one look.

My recording career has luckily run the gamut of recording environments.

Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.

Luck is statistics taken personally.

Zazen practice and everyday activity are one thing. We call zazen everyday life, and everyday life zazen.

The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts.