What’s yours? How will you serve the world? What do they need that your talent can provide? That’s all you have to figure out.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

My soul is not contained within the limits of my body; my body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul.

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine.

Flowers don't worry about how they're going to bloom. They just open up & turn toward the light & that makes them beautiful.

I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.

Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

Everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart, and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart.

A doctor once told me I feel too much. I said, so does god. that’s why you can see the grand canyon from the moon.

I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.

When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.

I never watched 'Harper's Island.'

Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

Anything worth having is hard to keep, I love you like my coffee, so hot and so sweet. So, let's stick it out so we never regret it, I could forgive the past-but I never forget it.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

If the gospel has never broken you, you have never really heard it.

You have to put yourself to one side and get away from the 'Victorian poet' model where you are the universe. You have to do everything you can to take your ego out of the equation.

Each year I become more mindful of being thankful for each life experience.