Will is what can make you succeed when your thoughts tell you that you're defeated.

Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.

Never take a path that has no heart in it. You can't lose if your heart is in your work, but you can't win if your heart is not in it.

Things don't change, only the way you look at them.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.

In the universe there is an immeasurable, indescribable force which shamens call intent, and absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link.

We don't need more to be thankful for, we just need to be more thankful.

As long as a man feels that he is the most important thing in the world he cannot really appreciate the world around him.

You are like you are, because you tell yourself that you are that way.

It's actually such a tragedy that I live in a world that is inspired by me putting my body or mental state on the line

That's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion.

Despite centuries of English literature, the most famous split infinitive in all of history comes from Star Trek.

When you're in the States and you're a writer and you've got money and you walk into a bank, you're a bum with money.

I am the thing that I am painting at the time of painting.

Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be.

We need a day of the dead. That's a perfect celebration.

It's been very important for me to follow my gut or my heart, or whichever organ you want to go by.

The coolest thing I've gotten to do in the past few years is guest star on Sesame Street.