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

When someone comes along and expresses him or herself as freely as they think, people flock to it. They enjoy it.

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.

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

There is an excellent correlation between giving society what it wants and making money, and almost no correlation between the desire to make money and how much money one makes.

Once you accept that playing the game will be uncomfortable, and you do it for a while, it will become much easier (like it does when getting fit). When you excel at it, you will find your ability to get what you want thrilling.

Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.

It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.

It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

Daily ripples of excellence -over time- become a tsunami of success.

A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on the love of God which prompts him to do these things.