What the crowd requires is mediocrity of the highest order.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

Reading literary fiction stimulates cognition beyond the brain functions related to reading, say, magazine articles, interviews, or most online nonfiction reporting.

Your darkest fears are the veil between you and your brightest rewards.

People wish to be settled only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

The future is the worst thing about the present.

Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.

We should all be much more careful with each other's hearts.

If you put junk food in your body, your body will turn to junk.

When you see me on TV, that's about as close to my real personality as you can get.

I believe in myself. There's nothing wrong with believing in myself. That's the whole idea, is that you can always become better.