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It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

In the 1998 Oscars, I found myself in the bathroom in a stall, next to Tom Selleck. So I leaned over and I said looks like were a couple of peeing Toms. His angry silence is something I'll never forget.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Nobody is worth your tears, and the one who is won't make you cry.

Always do what you want, and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

There are seven things that will destroy us: Wealth without work; Pleasure without conscience; Knowledge without character; Religion without sacrifice; Politics without principle; Science without humanity; Business without ethics.

If you can't intelligently argue for both sides of an issue, you don't understand the issue well enough to argue for either.

Your rights matter because you never know when you're going to need them.

The most important things are the hardest to say because words diminish them.

If Tetris has taught me anything it's that errors pile up and accomplishments disappear.

I'll tell you a secret. Something they don't teach you in your temple. The Gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

A wise man knows an ignorant man because he was once ignorant. But an ignorant man doesn't know a wise man because he was never wise Ali ibn Abu Talib.

Love has no age, no limit; and no death.

Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. … It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it's a cactus.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself--the invisible battles inside all of us--that's where it's at.