Interestingly, koi, when put in a fish bowl, will only grow up to three inches. When this same fish is placed in a large tank, it will grow to about nine inches long.

In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.

Be honest with yourself, and you will find the motivation to do what you advise others to do.

We all hit bumps. But we're not defined by the bumps, we're defined by how we respond to those bumps.

The best lesson we can teach our children is to have fun. It's infectious, it's contagious.

Kurt Cobain was a musical lyric genius. He was the Edgar Allan Poe of songwriting.

Never say never. You never know when never may come.

There's a taste in my mouth and it's no taste at all.

Look to love and you may dream, and if it should leave then give it wings. But if a love is meant to be, hope is home and the heart is free.

Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected.

The press was all over to get a picture of me. It got to the point where they were all over my house, following me to work... Then Tom Brokaw and everybody else was doing stories, 'A star is born.'

I don't apply [being a role model] to the choices I make. I feel like a role model is not necessarily someone you want to imitate, just someone you admire.

The mills of God grind slowly.

You can't just sit around in leopard-print slippers and drink champagne all day and think everything's gonna work out somehow.

I dropped out of high school and I tried to go to community college for a little while. I can't be a student. I always hated that lifestyle.