We believe what we want to believe, and once we believe something, it becomes a self-fulfilling truth.

Follow your dreams and work hard. There's no replacement for hard work, and that's true for any field. If you work hard at it, you're going to see the fruits of your labor, I guarantee it.

My body's feeling sore, but my soul is feeling pretty good.

Wrestling seemed like something I might be good at, so I stuck with it and gave it a shot. I ended up in a pretty good place. I was very fortunate.

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.

The United States of America have taken their name from the United States of the Netherlands.

Y'ALL ARE JUST BITTER.

You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.

I could take over as host of The Daily Show for Jon Stewart and make that thing actually watchable.

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of.

What kind of god would create a world in which the means of survival depends on our eating each other?

Hope is an undiscovered disappointment

Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate and may be offensive .

Mrs. Wiggs was a philosopher, and the sum and substance of her philosophy lay in keeping the dust off her rose-colored spectacles.

Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

I keep coming back to the phrase "Dance with the system" - not just march onwards no matter what happens.

But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.

If you care for people around you, you must make yourself into a person they enjoy being with.

As you get older, you start to really ask questions like, 'Is this the road I should be walking down?,' because every decision seems more final, as you get older.

Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form.