Each of us has more intelligence than we are trained to use and the part that we get graded on in school doesn’t amount to much.

Like Salvador Dali’s paintings of watches melting in the sand, time wanders at its own curious pace whenever you’re on vacation in a foreign country.

Find a way to learn something from every disappointment.

Barely halfway back, exhaustion sets in. What if I don’t make it? An edge of panic gets intercepted by a calmer inner voice: Look behind you.

Out here on the water, it’s a fine line between feeling in control and losing it altogether.

Instead of falling, I am dancing with the wind.

Flip a coin. Life or death. Heads or tails. You never know.

If there’s a takeaway from working here, it’s an understand that, as bioorganisms, we are a walking time bomb programed for cellular self-destruction. Not if, when.

Lucid dreams often feel like this—as if you are observing yourself from a point over your shoulders-arm flexed, hands curving around the boom, breathing, in three dimensional silence.

There are two kinds of special events: planned and unplanned.

Inside, my spirit is sparkling like foam on the crest of a wave at high tide under a full moon.

Do you know the one about how politics is show business for the ugly? State politics is show business for ugly people who can't remember their lines.

Time, the greatest thief of all.

I used everything you gave me.

Walking is a man's best medicine.

I would like to feel that I have a range and that it's not just a matter of being a comic actor or a serious actor, because those are really artificial classifications, I think.

Wait for the fruit to fall into your hand.

The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they fall.

Remember that no one succeeds alone. Never walk alone in your future paths.

It was the academic community who wired up their universities so it was put together by smart, well-meaning people who thought it was a good idea.

I want to go skydiving. I'd love to go to the Galapagos. Nature still excites me.