Creative people depend on the generosity and graces of strangers.

The future begins today.

You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations.

Helping people and putting smiles on their faces is a great, great thing. God only knows why more people don't do it more often.

Instead of loving people and using money, people often love money and use people.

The sad truth about bigotry is that most bigots either don't realize that they are bigots, or they convince themselves that their bigotry is perfectly justified.

Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.

People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not.

Change. Adapt. Bend so as not to be broken. Let opportunity guide your actions.

Sometimes people with low self-esteem will try to punish you for caring about them.

I've been told, by various people, that I think too much. This is incorrect! The truth is that I deliberately challenge people to think more than they would like to.

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.

I like down-to-earth people.

Always entertain the possibility that something, no matter how squiggly and scary looking, might just be good.

I went hunting, I shot a deer, and it mortified me. I just couldn't do it again.

Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere.

Don't be intimidated by power, wealth or station, character alone makes all the difference.

When it comes to idiots, America's got more than its fair share. If idiots were energy, it would be a source that would never run out.

A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word and deed is but a feeble echo of the surging violence of thought in us.

Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?

Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control.