You also notice that the right side of your face feels like it's sliding off of your skull. And your bottom lip is in your lap!

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.

Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

I wasn't always black... there was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

Risk may bring pain, but risk also brings freedom and reward.

Relaxation is good, holidays are necessary, but there is nothing as rewarding and healthy as doing what you love and loving what you do. Our honest toil should inspire and satisfy us.

There is only one rule for writing and that is go ahead and start writing.

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one's own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.

O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion!

I'm very, very sad to say that the only Sondheim show I've done is "A Little Night Music" and it was when I was in college.

In too deep to see the diamond, down too dark to see the gold. Now he won't let go of the shovel, and he cannot dig out of the hole.

The theater is a school we shall never have done with studying and learning.

I'm glad the universe is pointless. It means if I get to the end of my life, the universe can't turn to me and go, 'What have you been doing, you idiot? That's not the point!