“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is.”

Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

Any man’s life, told truly, is a novel.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

Work could cure almost anything.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.

Being against evil doesn’t make you good.

How little we know of what there is to know.

Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, every thing will get better and sun will shine brighter then ever.

We wait always for something that does not come.

Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?

Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.

You never understand anybody that loves you.

You’ll lose it, if you talk about it.

The first draft of anything is shit.

Your future is not ahead of you, it’s trapped within you.

I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.

He gave me a look at myself I’ve never had before. He saw something in me nobody else ever did. He made me see it too. He made me believe it.

When you’re moving in the positive, your destination is the brightest star.

Be bold, and everywhere be bold.

There will never be another Michael Jackson, a huge pop star since (the age of) 7.

You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way.

If we begin to stop spewing the negative and really move into using our voices and our pens and our abilities that we have to reach millions of people to the positive, we can make a difference in the world.