Make friends with people who want the best for you.

Stand up straight with your shoulders back.

Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping.

Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.

Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world.

Pursue what is meaningful not what is expedient.

Tell the truth - or at least, don't lie.

Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don't.

Most authors have one idea per book. Shakespeare had two per sentence.

Fear invariably and universally induces disengagement, and disengagement is negative division of labor.

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.

I quit comics because I got completely sick of it. I was drawing comics all the time and didn't have the time or energy to do anything else. That got to me in the end.

Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.

All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.

Personally, I regard myself as an intellectual 'rebel,' kicking against the 'old colonialism-imperialism paradigm' which has landed Africa in a conundrum.

Consumerism is our national religion.

Didn't the other guys tell you? Nobody dunks on Manute B-O-L!

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

What happened yesterday, no longer matters. Today is another day. Get back on the right track and move closer to your dreams. Yes you can do it.

Myself, I'm just a simple country boy who spent time on the streets and developed a style of writing and rapping and a cool sound that people seem to enjoy.

A boat is the hardest think I know of to put into perspective. It is so much like a human figure there is something alive about it.

I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money.

During a panic attack, I remember that today is just today and that is all that it is. I take a deep breath in and I realize that in this moment I am fine and everything is okay. More importantly, I am reminded that my A.P.C. jeans are so perfectly worn in that they are appropriate for any season and I am suddenly at ease.

Even without church walls or doors or sconces Easter had come. Even without altars or crosses Easter had come

Theater has always been terrifying to me.

I made a record in 1996 called 'Animal Rights' that was a very difficult, very dark punk-rock record. Of all the records I've made, it's my favorite one. It's also the one that got the worst reviews and sold the worst.

I'm ridiculously fortunate to get a chance to experience the sitcom world. The schedule is extremely easy, and you get fed as an artist because you're not only working on a project, but you get to work with cameras, and you get the audience there.

I don't expect anybody to know who I am.

First, the American legislative process isn't well suited to large and complex measures.

I don't believe in deadlines, I don't believe in telling the enemy when we're going to withdraw.

I'm kind of shy, to be honest. If I go to the pool or something, I keep my shirt on unless I'm getting in the water.

I have an aunt who believed strongly that teaching kids that Shakespeare is 'hard' is wrong, so she handed me 'Hamlet' when I was in kindergarten to see what would happen. What happened was I did a book report on 'Hamlet' and caused quite a lot of trouble!