I wasn't a cheerleader or the prom queen. I don't move through the world with a mirror in front of my face, and I've never been attracted to projects that had an emphasis on what I look like.

I choose to be more prepared than I'm expected to be.

I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players

I'm going to be who I am. And if you find it offensive, if you find it to be too tough, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.

My mother used to say, If other people have a problem with you, that's their problem. It's not your problem. I still have that philosophy today.

Don't blame me. That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution.

Forgiveness is the highest form of a gift of kindness and it brings freedom from the prison of hatred and revenge.

You have to first position yourself with the right level of mannerism, before others could see a reason to respect you.

When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.

I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.

The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.

Every man is entitled to make a darn fool of himself at least once in a lifetime.

We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.

A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.