Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights.

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.

I have Tourettes syndrome.

The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.

There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives

such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour

The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we're walking.

When we stop judging others and ourselves, our heart begins to open.

There's a punk-rock attitude, clearly, to 'Hated.' There's even a punk-rock attitude to 'The Hangover, ' I think. We start the movie with a Glenn Danzig song.

Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.

Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people.

It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world (to suit us, if I may say so!) and not a world-explanation.

I loved feeling special. I hated feeling special.

Of course, you play the game of life because you got to be incarnated.

I have always abhorred the word racism. I never use it.

Super confident people with no problems and great marriages and great parenting are not good entertainment.

Leaders must always put their people before themselves. If you do that, your business will take care of itself.