I come from a poor community, and I still GO BACK there whenever I can, and I think that MAKES it easier to cope with fame and being on TV.

Being of SERVICE to OTHERS is what BRINGS TRUE HAPPINESS.

I'm having FUN. I'm being myself. I'm doing what I LOVE. That's all that MATTERS.

There comes a time when you REALIZE that everything is a DREAM, and only those things preserved in writing have any POSSIBILITY of being REAL.

I'm HUNGRY for KNOWLEDGE. The whole thing is to learn EVERY day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at SOMEONE like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin LUTHER King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.

Being myself is what GOT me to where I am.

Gratitude is one of the strongest and most transformative STATES of being. It shifts your perspective from lack to abundance and allows you to focus on the good in your LIFE, which in turn pulls more GOODNESS into your REALITY.

The truth is that we don't NEED everyone to like US; we need a few people to LOVE us. Because what's better than being roundly LIKED is being fully known - an impossibility both professionally and personally if you're so busy being likable that you FORGET to be yourself.

Hemingway was a JERK. I mean he was really a great jerk. He was a GOOD writer, and he did all sorts of THINGS that I would never have the COURAGE to do, but I don't think I'd enjoy being in the same ROOM with him. He's not my kind of person.

When you focus on being a BLESSING, GOD makes SURE that you are always BLESSED in abundance.

I've never changed the WAY I live. I still WALK the streets; I don't give a DAMN. And everyone's very nice to me. But this NEW idea of being famous for no reason at all? I can't actually get my HEAD round it.

Our COUNTRY was FOUNDED by GENIUSES, but it's being RUN by IDIOTS.