We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
What we think, we become.
All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.
I don't think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.
I don't think you should ever start a business and move in a direction where you can't see it becoming a business.
It seems like we wake up and it's a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, 'What the hell am I doing?'
Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial. And darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable.
I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently.
I feel like I've been playing Spider-Man my whole life. He's a character I've been pretending to be in my bedroom since I was a kid - so I've been preparing for this forever, I think.
I write everything down. I e-mail the second I think of something, or I write notes in my BlackBerry calendar. I set up reminder alerts on my phone. And I have a notebook by my bedside so I can write down any last-minute ideas.
I'm not lonely, and I think that has a lot to do with what's on my bedside table rather than what's in my bed.
I'm still a bit of a reading glutton, I think, because I browse, read a bit of the back copy, flip through the book, read a bit of the text, and if it still seems fascinating, I read it. That's why my bedside table is so cluttered: I want to imbibe it all.
I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up.
I was a big and un-ironic fan of Dear Abby when I was a kid in Chicago. I think I sort of internalized her. So I have this inner Abby: cranky, proper, folksy yet scathing, with a beehive hairdo. But that's my issue.
I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.
Europeans are much more serious than we are in America because they think that a good place to discuss intellectual matters is a beer party.
They who drink beer will think beer.
I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.
I don't mind bees and think we are all the better for having them around. I like the taste of honey.
