“The mind is the most important thing of the big picture and no one has a stronger mindset than amateur wrestlers.”

Excellence in anything increases your potential in everything.

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.

Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.

I do have that mindset – that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath.

I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.

Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.

“Language Arts Dept.” is the English office; “literature based on child’s reading level and experiential background” means that’s all they’ve got in the Book Room; “non-academic-minded” is a delinquent; and “It has come to my attention” means you’re in trouble.

A fight of a thousand years – the smart mind and the hopeful heart.

To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind

When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.