I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven't known life to be any happier.

I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.

You must lose everything in order to gain anything.

In Missouri, where I come from, we don't talk about what we do - we just do it. If we talk about it, it's seen as bragging.

I embrace the messiness of life. I find it so beautiful actually.

I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there.

Man, when I'm riding with the helmet on, I'm invisible. And people just deal with me as the guy on the bike... it gives you a chance to read 'em.

I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it.

The things you own end up owning you.

Do you know how you tell real love? It's when someone else's interest trumps your own.

Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.

The jar shall never ceased to be filled with oil.

If you wish to preserve your secret wrap it up in frankness.

In the most civilized and progressive countries freedom of discussion is recognized as a fundamental principle.

As a youngster I worked the river boats going down the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, pushing barges to Chicago, then all the way down to New Orleans.

I grew up in a musical family; the majority of my growing up was done in Hawaii. It's what we do. You sing, you dance, you play ukulele and you drink.

You may lose again and again... and again because you always think of success, but you can have success because you never think of it but concentrating your right work only.

I thought you had forgotten me.” “I have spent my life remembering you.

I always joke and say I want to invent a comfortable stiletto and then retire.

Knowing who you really are and dressing the part -- with an air of amused recklessness -- is life affirming for you and life enhancing for other people.

It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately.