“Life doesn’t happen to you. It happens for you.”

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

One man’s toxic waste is another man’s potpourri.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

Morgan Freeman is so class. He’s so cool. He’s so scary.

Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much.

You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I’d love that. But I don’t need to be. I just want to be here. That’s it.

I feel that we’re all lighthouses, and my job is to shine my light as brightly as I can to the darkness.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

The peace that we’re after lies somewhere beyond personality, beyond the perception of others, beyond invention and disguise, even beyond effort itself.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they’re eating sandwiches.

For the most sensitive among us, the noise can be too much.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

Let’s go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.

Once in your life, try something. Work hard at something. Try to change. Nothing bad can happen.

Today I woke up and I wonder: What’s happening into the sea?

When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.

It doesn’t matter what your dream is, you can make it happen!

Always think, ‘what’s the worst that can happen’ and have some kind of strategy to deal with it.

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

It is very important that adults talk to children about what is happening in a way that they can understand, using simple and age-appropriate language.