"There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off."

"When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture."

"Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being."

"If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure."

"The art of living is discovering that the true master is an eternal student."

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."

"I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father."

"The true measure of a man is the true master is an eternal student."