“I’ve always been the opposite of a paranoid. I operate as if everyone is part of a plot to enhance my well-being.”

To be truly rich includes not only financial freedom but developing rich, meaningful relationships, enriching your health, and enjoying a rich balance between your career and your personal life.

It’s never crowded along the extra mile.

You Can’t Hire Someone Else to Do Your Push-ups for You.

We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.

Success consists of going from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

A dog is one of the few remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk.

The dynamics that are required to make any relationship work: Just keep putting your love out there.

Do you want to speak to the man in charge—or the nurse who knows what’s going on?

There is no right reaction. There is only your reaction.

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

If you love your work, if you enjoy it, you’re already a success.

And so I wait. I wait for time to heal the pain and raise me to me feet once again – so that I can start a new path, my own path, the one that will make me whole again.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Carry your most important goal in your wallet.

Expect the unexpected. Focus on what you can control and acknowledge what’s out of your control.

If someone is hostile in the delivery of their feedback, remember that it is an expression of their level of fear, not your level of incompetence or unlovability.

Money will not purchase character or good government.

The only strong opinion that I have about myself is that I don’t have any opinions.

Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of the solution, not the problem.

I’m not funny. What I am is brave.

Character is like my fingerprint; it identifies me from everyone else in the world. It says who I am and where I am headed.

You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people’s characteristics so that you can design characters around what you’ve seen.

My features are completely ethnic.

Listen to a man’s words and look at the pupil of his eye. How can a man conceal his character?