You are either going to go through the pain of disappointment or discipline in your life. The latter makes the pain worth it.

Life is like a camera. Focus on what's important. Capture the good times. And if things don't work out, just take another shot.

Life is like an elevator. On your way up, sometimes you have to stop and let some people off.

Don't judge someone's attitude until you've felt their pain.

Be careful who you trust, the devil was once an angel.

Trust is earned, respect is given, and loyalty is demonstrated. Betrayal of any one of those is to lose all three.

One of the hardest decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.

Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it.

Listen to what people say when they are mad, that's when the truth comes out.

A negative mind will never give you a positive life.

Any definition of a successful life must include service to others.

Why are you worrying about YOU-KNOW-WHO, when you should be worrying about YOU-NO-POO? The constipation sensation that's gripping the nation!

I've always looked on criticism as a sort of envious tribute.

Only internal bliss is perpetual, nothing else is created to last

That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully.

But why must choices always lie along a linear spectrum with two poles instead of say among a sphere of possibilities

The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate.

If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!

How many fine thoughts has every man had! How few fine thoughts are expressed!

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.