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Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.

I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.

Show interest in all people, not just those from whom you want something. Making people feel important and good about themselves is just the right thing to do.

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it.

Under Barack Obama, the only 'Change' is that 'Hope' has been hard to find. Now millions of Americans are insecure about their future. But instead of inspiring us by reminding us of what makes us special, he divides us against each other. He tells Americans they're worse off because others are better off. That people got rich by making others poor.

People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.

I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

I think long and hard about what it is I'm actually trying to do, and then I kind of have to narrow my focus into that. If I don't, I'm too all over the place.

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.

The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.

My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.

When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

I know that I'm deeply, spiritually, profoundly philosophical and I also know that I'm about the flakiest person you're gonna meet.

Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.

I'm always very nervous about the word 'dancer' next to my name because anyone who's really trained in dance will go, 'This guy's fudging so badly.'

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.