You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.

Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

You get to the point where your demons, which are terrifying, get smaller and smaller and you get bigger and bigger.

The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.

Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up.

Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.

What do you do with your legacy, and how do you best put it to use?

Knowing and doing are two separate things, and don't always sync up in life.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

A lot of peopletell me I'm a bit dreamy, but I like the idea of that. Of being somewhere else.

Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.

My character Jack in the New York Spring Spectacular is a lot of fun. He's playful, he's full of life. He can make things come to life. He can make things happen.

Awareness means the capacity to see a coffeepot and hear the birds sing in one's own way and not the way one was taught.

People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.

You always want your work to be seen as long as it's good.

Empathy lies in our ability to be present without opinion.

Someone stole my bicycle and I said I was going to learn to fight so that I could catch him and beat him up. But I never did catch him. But I ended up the champ of the whole world.