"When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I just thought of the risk of not going into show business and always wondering if I would've had a chance. Because that's where my real heart was."

"I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner."

"I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't."

"Bad psychoanalysis would say I enjoyed pleasing people, working really hard and pleasing people, which is probably related to my father in some way. But I really liked working hard. When I worked at Disneyland, I'd do 12 hours straight and go home thrilled."

"The simplest truths often reveal that the essence of humanity is our ability to connect."

"Every season of life has its own unique blossom, if only we take care to notice. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon."

"All philosophical inquiry begins with the humility to admit the limits of knowing. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"He who seeks peace must remember that the melody of life is composed of both highs and lows."