Keep your focus on what YOU want to do - not what anyone else wants or is doing. You lose time watching others succeed.

Indie film isn’t dead. It just grew up.

You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude, but they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you.

One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity.

In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least trying to accomplish all of your wildest dreams in life.

If you're alive, kick into drive. Chase whimsies. See if you can turn dreams into a way to make a living, if not an entire way of life.

Don't let anybody tell you different, man: The main goal in life careerwise should always be to try to get paid to simply be yourself.

More often than not, a hero’s most epic battle is the one you never see; it’s the battle that goes on within him or herself.

I try never to worry in general. Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.

In this life, if you don't celebrate yourself, nobody will.

Storytelling is my currency. It's my only worth. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out.

Everyone is always learning something new, " my father would remind me when he checked to see if I was doing my homework and found me gazing out the window at the stars. "If not, why be alive?

Forgiveness does not come easily to us, especially when someone we have trusted betrays our trust. And yet if we do not learn to forgive, we will discover that we can never really rebuild trust.

Who knows how we should be? We simply do our best, over and over and over.

To his dog every man is Napoleon hence the constant popularity of dogs.

Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature.

The task of the teacher of the Bible is to open up what’s closed, to make plain what is obscure, to unravel what is knotted and to unfold what is tightly packed.

I'm not an icon. Not even in America.

As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away.

Words slip into a language the way white-green vines slide between slats in a fence.

Always be aware that you have the power to create the naturally stress-free and tranquil life you desire.