“The Universe rewards calculated risk and passion.”

The key to happiness doesn’t lay in numbers in a bank account but in the way we make others feel and the way they make us feel.

So instead of investing your time in a passion, you’ve sold your life to work for an uncaring machine that doesn’t understand you. That’s the problem with our society. And what’s the reward? Go home and get a big TV.

Richard Pryor is, in my mind, the most honest comedian. He bared his soul to people. I think that’s why everybody loved him so much.

Once you understand what excellence is all about, you see how excellence manifest itself in any discipline.

If you can lie, you can act, and if you can lie to crazy girlfriends, you can act under pressure.

Have you ever talked to someone, and you’re not even really talking to them? Actors are the worst for that.

People for the most part can smell lies.

I’ve been inspired by a shitload of people in my life so if there’s ever anybody that I can inspire, to me that’s a huge gift.

One of the most fascinating lessons I’ve absorbed about life is that the struggle is good.

Life is about the pursuit of excellence. That pursuit is probably more exciting to me now more than ever.

We have to start treating each other as if we are treating ourselves living another life.

I love a success story, but even more than a success story; I like a dude who fucks his life up and gets his life together again story.

I want to make sure that everything that I’m creating, I’m creating it so other people get enjoyment out of it. And that’s the reward that you get for that.

The people I know that have the hardest time keeping it together emotionally are people that don’t workout.

Once you understand what excellence is all about, you see how excellence manifests itself in any discipline.

Life is strange. You keep moving and keep moving. Before you know it, you look back and think, ‘What was that?

I am passionate about music – and people think because I go to places where I can enjoy music I have to be partying. It isn’t true.

Feeling passionate about something doesn’t mean you have to be angry.

Faith is a passionate intuition.

I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.

Obviously the most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.