As you move through life, set aside good ideas and give them to others to encourage and inspire.

Dreaming illustrates your hidden capacities and your unawakened ability.

You must accept that you can change and that a pattern of principles adhered to and used repeatedly will not only direct your life, but change it permanently.

Success is having consistent work habits.

What makes the great great? It is a sense of destiny.

Having a long term goal provides a catalyst for motivation at every waking moment.

Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity.

If a despot like Adolf Hitler can think of 1000-year reign, why can't you think of a goal that is gonna last 100 years after you have gone?

Life is not a dress rehearsal - every day is opening night.

Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool.

Always trust your gut instinct. There will come a time when you will understand, but for now trust God has a plan greater than you have ever imagined.

Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.

I don't return anybody's calls unless it's going to mean extra money for me. And I've completely cut off all relationships with any friends that I had before the show. And I've copped an attitude.

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do.

Nothing ever turns me on so much in a woman as unhappiness.

Boyhood is distracted for years with precepts of grammar that are infinitely prolix, perplexed and obscure.

Better a days catch of fish than a lifetime of crabs.

Superman was never previewed because the producers didn't trust Warners with the film.

Love is the absence of Anxiety.