To protect themselves, the weak focus on the "bad" in people. Conversely, the strong, who fear little, focus on the "good".

Love changes things; hope allows us to endure until the change arrives.

Think about it. Every time you fail at a task you've actually learned something new. The question is "what?"

Your spirit lives on in your work. YOU decide what manner of work that will be.

Art is what separates us from the animals.

The only thing between you and success is your thinking. Defeatist thoughts are the mother of inaction.

Cynicism is the calling card of unhappy people.

Art cannot be bought or sold. It can only be created or destroyed.

The market follows the artist. The artist does not follow the market.

The problem with at-home IQ tests is that too many people wouldn't understand the results. Calling customer service is a bad sign.

A peaceful soul haunts the warring mind.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become president. I'm beginning to believe it.

Priceless things matter not for their value, but because they offer us an enduring reminder of stability and permanence.

You can tell how boring a person is by the lack of fear in their eyes when someone is flipping through photos on their phone.

If the general attitude of Canadians toward their mighty neighbor to the south could be distilled into a single phrase, that phrase would probably be "Oh, shut up."

The quantum is that embarrassing little piece of thread that always hangs from the sweater of space-time. Pull it and the whole thing unravels.

I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.

Janeane Garofalo ended up, in a sense, being pushed by the media into becoming a pundit.

One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.

I know why we're here. We're all here because we're not all there.

I think fantasy literature is the one true literature of hope and imagination.