There are some key elements to business being a success, and that's a smart visionary and great management behind the people that are going to build it.

In life some people trip and some fall but some take that trip and make a beautiful dance out of it.

EVERYTHING IN LIFE IS A FANTASY UNTIL YOU CHOOSE TO MAKE IT A REALITY.

Sure things are going to get sketchy, but when your having the time of your life whats sketchy?

No one gives you anything in life. You gotta work hard and go after it to get it.

In all aspects of life, it's always much funner when you surround yourself with people you enjoy being around.

Take this wealth and this fame, always stay humble, keep your family close, and do ridiculously crazy things.

Never undervalue the idea of partners. Understanding your strengths and then going out trying to find like-minded people who will be another pillar of your success.

Learning a [skateboard] trick is kind of like a puzzle; you have to keep trying, and trying, and trying, and adapting and changing, and adapting and changing, and finally it works.

I love everything I do and I can still remember the days of cashing my first royalty check for $2. I have such a great life, I'm proud of everything.

Half of my success is my fearlessness and recklessness, of just seeing the end and not stopping until you get there.

Forgiveness is brave, sets us free from darkness, and allows light to shine the sweet fragrance of life into our souls

Don't just create a change for yourself, be a centre of change to others.

Human skin hisses like a rattlesnake when it burns.

People have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be.

A non-Communist premier with Communist ministers would be like a woman trying to stay half pregnant.

My father had a couple of kids at the beginning of the Depression. There was not much employment. Not much welfare. People barely got by. People were tougher then.

A critic is a man who expects miracles.

It was a very different Republican Party in 2013. And so I think particularly the House Republicans are more confrontational, less willing to compromise even than the Republican class of '94.

You've got to respond to the fans, and play well, or people will jump on you. They'll read something and jump on you.