"Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us."

"Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property."

"There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience."

"It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men."

"I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing."

"I sing in the car if I'm in LA, because you're like soundproofed."

"The silent observer understands that the silence between the notes creates the music."

"Comedy isn't necessarily all dialogue. Think of Buster Keaton: the poker face and all this chaos going on all around him. Sometimes it's a question of timing, of the proper rhythm."