When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.

The attitude you have as a parent is what your kids will learn from more than what you tell them. They don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it.

The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.

I believe that we form our own lives, that we create our own reality, and that everything works out for the best.

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them.

Because when he sings...even the birds stop to listen.

Every bar in the scores of ourselves is already into memory into imagination, even as we play it out. We might as well listen.

Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit?

Growing up as a chubby kid with a ton of imaginary friends and a Cyndi Lauper obsession, I learned about rejection early on and was constantly trying to avoid it.

A great gift - a gift of Dharma conquers all gifts.

I still have certain goals that I want. Grammies... Other awards... an Oscar one day.

When I get depressed, or anything, I go 'think of all the music I haven't even heard yet!' So, it's the one thing. Imagine the world without music. Man, just hand me a gun, will you?

I believe the highest aspiration of man should be individual freedom and the development of the individual.

It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.