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Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

Never say 'I can't.' 'I can't' is a limit, and life is about breaking through limits. Say 'I will' instead.

Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

And please return it. You may think this a strange request, but I find that although my friends are poor arithmeticians, they are nearly all of them good bookkeepers.

Oh, I hate him,' she said, and I noticed a flush of colour come into her cheeks and the manner in which the fingers of her left hand dug into her palm, as if she wanted something to take away the pain. 'I absolutely detest him. Afterwards, I didn't feel very much at all for a week or two. I suppose I was in shock. But then the fury rose and it hasn't subsided since. Sometimes I find it difficult to control. I think it was around the time that everyone stopped asking me whether I was all right, when lives went back to how they had been before. Had he been in Dublin I might well have gone over there, broken down his door and stabbed him as he slept. Fortunately for him, he was in Madagascar with his lepers.' (p. 268)

There's a time where people were out holding posters in protest outside shows I was doing, and thankfully, we've moved past that. And a lot of country stations wouldn't play me. They were more conservative than I was.

You know, I'm a father. I'm a brother. I'm a son. And I'm a grandfather. So many times I have to be the intermediary, the person to referee and help solve disputes and to protect and to guide.

It would be very beneficial to remain consciously aware during any experience because the mind will otherwise start to fill presence with thoughts and emotions.

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

I love fast cars... and to go too fast in them.

A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to.

It's not what you see that is art, art is the gap.

The fact is, employees cannot make breakthroughs if they can't openly and honestly disagree with their peers and their leader. Indeed, great leaders don't just permit conflict; they actively try to elicit it from reluctant employees as well.

I would love to do a comedy spoof, like a Spinal Tap kind of thing.

I don't have one geographic location that I'm exclusively loyal to.

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

I know I have great grappling myself, and I know how I do with submissions.

I believe that this is the land of religious freedom and that that applies to Muslims. And if I have to make it apply to Muslims with the work that I do, I'm going to do that.

As a group, valedictorians have always led well-rounded, socially integrated, ‘normal’ lives.