My life is a party thrown for me by my own decisions.

I think it's your duty to overcome what you inherit in life.

Apologizes are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move, on you can grow.

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.

I got fired when I was a dishwasher at Denny's. That set me back a little bit. You don't realize how important dishwashers are until you do the job.

The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge.

I was brought up to never lie. Sure, I have. But in the final mix, the lies I've told are far outweighed by the truths I've lived.

The mark of a man is one who knows he can' control his circumstances - but he can control his responses.

I went and did some things [rehab], and then of course my life didn't change that much [for a while], but I never missed work.

I don't know if I'm addicted to fame; fame is more of an unpleasant circumstance of an addiction to creativity.

What I can control is how I react. I can't control anything else.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

The worst thing you can do is to put your life aside for someone else.

The fact is, when I wrote 'Juno' - and I think this is part of its charm and appeal - I didn't know how to write a movie. And I also had no idea it was going to get made!

There is nothing as precious to man as a sound mind in a sound body and it is essential that the physical well being of our people merits as much attention as its spiritual welfare

Enjoy things even when you’re screwing up.

That's just the business of boxing. Things just turned out that way. I don't think it was any particular reason. I had opportunities to fight in bigger fights, but things just didn't always work out.

I had become an atheist at the age of thirteen, when atomic bombs were dropped on Japan.

My body is my art, and it's also the tool that I use to make money.

The complexity of the world is so overwhelming and so present to everyone.

She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.