“If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe.”

People love to see people fall.

Haters are all failures. It’s 100% across the board. No one who is truly brilliant at anything is a hater.

There’s a never-ending ocean of techniques out there.

That’s my only goal. Surround myself with funny people, and make sure everyone has a good time and works hard.

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.

The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.

How we use the knowledge we gain determines our progress on earth, in space or on the moon. Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well.

If you’re not living on the edge then you’re taking up a little too much space.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

The vision of the eye is limited; the vision of the heart transcends all barriers of time and space.

Many people have come and left, and it has been always good because they emptied some space for better people.

The weak-minded always look for safe spaces to hide.

In the space of no-mind, truth descends like light.