I no longer believe in freedom of speech.

Running is special. We've all done it: well, poorly, focused, in fear, being pursued, toward a goal. It's just elemental. Running is like fire.

Cats probably wouldn't need 9 lives if they wore tiny little helmets and didn't smoke cigarettes.

It's probably not love if you don't press your face to the toilet seat after they've used it to feel their warmth.

If you have an opinion on what other adults do consensually with other adults when they take their pants off, you're a weirdo.

I can't 'make' you love me. But I can fill my pantry with your favourite snacks and offer you a weekly stipend of $75.

I think your ambition for something changes as you go.

It's hard for me to get embarrassed, but the things that do embarrass me would be if anybody ever heard my wife and I talking in our robust, made-up language.

On stage, I'm me. I'm a husband, I'm a dad, I'm a guy, I'm a mess - but I am a cohesive thing that you recognize as one human entity saying these things that he generally believes.

It's a good idea to have a break, to let your mind rest and so you can start to cultivate ideas.

It makes me sad that corporations and media and Hollywood conspire to make people feel terrible about their bodies from the second they wake up ,so I sort of try to subversively undercut that.

Mindfulness allows us to shift the angle on our story and to remember that we have the capacity to learn and change in ways that are productive, not self-defeating.

It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.

Was it really right to look the way he did? His prominent nose was altogether too immodest for his humble position in life

Hurt is a bruise on the outside. Harm is a bruise on the inside.

Believe in that One Thing That Sets You Apart: your skill, your idea or just you, yourself ! And, Never Stop Believing.

Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10, 000 people.

We are going to have to be very careful that we give people the hope that freedom is actually better than unfreedom.

Enlightenment! When it comes, it comes like a brick to the head, doesn't it?

Learning to read in one language helps us read a second language.

Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against this as a method, but it is not what English writers do.