True security lies in the unrestrained embrace of insecurity - in the recognition that we never really stand on solid ground, and never can.

Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where the opportunities - for success, for happiness, for really living - are waiting.

The effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable.

...It's more important than ever that we find new ways to cultivate curiosity - because our careers, our happiness, and our children's flourishing all depend upon it.

Part of the problem with positive thinking, and many related approaches to happiness, is exactly this desire to reduce big questions to one-size-fits-all self-help tricks or ten point plans.

...no matter how much success you may experience in life, your eventual story - no offence intended - will be one of failure. Your bodily organs will fail, and you'll die.

I came to understand that happiness and vulnerability are often the same thing.

Don't let your past dictate your future,

If you make your own path in this thing we call life, you will forever know that it was yours and not someone else's.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task but it my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

The buyer, the prospect, the customer expects you to have knowledge of their stuff, not just your stuff.

It will take a brave person to cull the benefits system and analyse who deserves and who doesn't.

Those who love, friends and lovers, know that love is not only a blinding flash, but also a long and painful struggle in the darkness for the realization of definitive recognition and reconciliation.

It is easy to love and there are so many ways to do it.

As a comic, I think I'm very verbally oriented about a lot of the stuff that I've written or thought up and how I say it.

In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings.

Do no dishonor to the earth lest you dishonor the spirit of man.