“No one ever laid out the sequence of events that led to my mother being prosecuted and imprisoned for alleged welfare fraud.”

You can only depend on yourself. The cavalry aint coming.

This part of my life, this little part, is called happiness.

I just wanted to make a million dollars. But I couldn’t sing and I couldn’t play ball, so I said to my mother, ‘How am I going to make a million dollars?’ And she said to me, ‘Son, if you believe you can do it, you will.’

It’s okay to fail; it’s not okay to quit.

Then again, what seems like nothing in the eyes of the world, when properly valued and put to use, can be among the greatest riches.

The world is your oyster. It’s up to you to find the pearls.

Walk that walk and go forward all the time. Don’t just talk that talk, walk it and go forward. Also, the walk didn’t have to be long strides; baby steps counted too. Go forward.

If you want something, go get it. Period.

Claim ownership of your dreams.

Ready or not, Tell yourself to jump.

I hold one thing dearer than all else: my commitment to my son.

Don’t ever let someone tell you you can’t do something.

It can be done, but you have to make it happen.

There is no plan B for passion.

Still a dreamer, yet more of a realist than ever before, I knew this was my time to sail. On the horizon I saw the shining future, as before. The difference now was that I felt the wind at my back. I was ready.

(The movie) is the story of my life, but it’s not about me. It’s about anybody who ever dreamed big and had someone tell them, ‘No, you can’t do it.’ You can.

Death and hell are never full, and neither are men’s eyes.

There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou – Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.

Death should take me while I am in the mood.

There is a time to live, a time to die, a time to laugh, and at no time are the three of them very far apart.

It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something

Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.

So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.

Obviously, I dont live and die by it, everything my horoscope says. But I feel like theres definitely something to it.