It's easier to knock on a door that's not shut all the way.

Every piece of the puzzle that doesn't fit gets you closer to the answer.

You'll have a lot more respect for a bird after you try making a nest.

Nobody notices it when your zipper is up, but everyone notices when it's down.

It's easier to throw sticks on the campfire than to try to restart it when it goes out.

If you want to zoom down the expert slope tomorrow, you have to fall down the bunny slope today.

If you want pancakes for breakfast, offer to help make them.

Look at the footprints you've made.

Ten minutes is short if it's a recess and long if it's a punishment.

It's not enough to be able to spell "magnificence" in your bedroom. You have to be able to spell it at the microphone during the spelling bee.

If you want to see a shooting star, you might have to spend a lot of nights looking up.

I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there like air or food or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.

Evil is a source of moral intelligence in the sense that we need to learn from our shadow, from our dark side, in order to be good.

Every day is a new experience and I take it as it comes.

I just feel a connection with Marilyn Monroe. I just love her. I just completely feel what she went through.

I'm fortunate to know a lot of incredibly talented people, and they all want to be a penguin.

I feel like all the artists that I really love, they've had a strong contingent of people who really hate their work as well.

What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.

Revolutions require work, revolutions require sacrifice, revolutions, and our own included, require a certain amount of rationing, a certain amount of calluses, a certain amount of sacrifice

We must motivate ourselves to do our very best, and by our example lead others to do their best as well.

Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument.