Do not to be as shy around girls, because they're probably just as shy and just as scared as you are.

When you do an animated movie - at least the ones that I've been a part of - you never see any of the other actors. It's all done separately with headphones in a voice booth.

Is it true that if you don’t USE it you LOSE it?

Everyone said to Vincent van Gogh, "You can't be a great painter, you only have one ear." And you know what he said? "I can't hear you".

Nothing to me feels as good as laughing incredibly hard.

I am both a night owl and an early bird. So I am wise and I have worms.

This year, more people will use cocaine than will read a book to their children.

I'm not superstitious, but I'm a little stitious.

Fool me once, strike one. But fool me twice ... strike three.

I ate fiberglass insulation. It wasn’t cotton candy like the guy said… my tummy itches.

Actors and magicians are both performers and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.

Be the star in someone's sky. Love with light from the high.

There is no nature in an instant.

In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.

I call animals "guardians of Being," especially animals that live with humans. Because, for many humans, it's through their contact with animals they get in touch with that level of being.

Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals.

The sky is no bigger than the mouth of the well.

We're on safe ground to presume that self-interest and hubris are at the core of the rebellion.

The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.

In 2006 I was asked to sing at the World Cup in Germany, and in 2010 I was fortunate enough to be asked again.

But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots.