You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I’m learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, ‚I can’t go to Kmart. I can’t take my kids to the haunted house.‘

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

There is no substitute for victory.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

I’m not a natural born performer.

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I’m going to grow artistically.

Every loss of life is terrible.

There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

If you deserve it, go get it.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

One thing that I find very unmotivating is the kind of Plan B argument: when Earth gets destroyed, you want to be somewhere else. That doesn’t work for me. We have sent robotic probes now to every place in the solar system, and this is the best one.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people – more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true – in certain rare, isolated cases.

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Power is competence.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.