It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.

The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.

I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.

Obviously the most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.

If your only tool is a hammer then every problem looks like a nail.

In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.

Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?

Ken Jeong might be my biggest fan.

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity

It is important to recognize the limited ability of the legal system to prescribe and enforce the quality of social arrangements.

Maybe it's God disguised as Michael Jordan.

The real problem with being around James was that he was always the hero. And what did that make you? Either the sidekick or the villain.

But I'm not to be caught with such poor bait! I'm a big fish, I am.

Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

When you are plugged into you, anything is possible.

The secret to a fulfilled life is not only to do well but also to do good.