Gardening is a humbling experience.

Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.

Seek out people to work with who are brimming with talent, energy, integrity, optimism, and generosity.

Life is too complicated not to be orderly.

There is no single recipe for success. But there is one essential ingredient: Passion

Never make a big decision without sleeping on it.

I have a microphone on one ankle and an ankle bracelet on the other, so I'm well balanced today.

If you learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day

You should never accept what can be offered to you if you feel it can be improved.

I try to seek out and surround myself with people who just percolate fresh, original, and creative ideas.

So the pie isn't perfect? Cut it into wedges. Stay in control, and never panic.

A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with.

People who succeed in business aren't afraid to hear feedback from their customers -- they actually thrive from it.

First times are always sacred. May we never run out of "firsts

One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well.

The fact that we often judge the pleasure of an experience by its ending can cause us to make some curious choices.

I sort of make believe. That's why I like acting. You can create or imagine anything.

Whatever's happening today, remember it is only ONE SCENE in a long movie. Don't treat it like it's the whole story. Keep writing the story.

The incarnation is in itself an unfathomable mystery, but it makes sense of everything else that the New Testament contains.

It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label... Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.

The difference between talking on your cell phone while driving and speaking with a passenger is huge. The person on the other end of the cell phone is chattering away, oblivious.