The conventionality of the English is something I find unattractive - the whole lack of joy in the physical.

Surprise yourself every day with your own courage.

When it's a minor or supporting role, you learn to make the most of what you're given. I can make two lines seem like Hamlet.

Sometimes dreaming is opening your eyes and looking at the world around you.

The present is the necessary product of all the past the necessary cause of all the future.

While entrepreneurs spend a lot of effort trying to avoid failure, sometimes the lessons one learns from those missteps can be invaluable.

Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.

When I was in high school, I ran hurdles, but I was really short, so I'd barely clear them. I was pretty quick, but I had little legs, so I had to take 50 steps in between each hurdle.

Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.

Beyond a certain point, that was all a mother could do for her children - Hang around long enough to drive them crazy.

A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.

No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation.

The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.