When you live on your own for a long time, however, your personality changes because you go so much into yourself you lose the ability to be social, to understand what is and isn't normal behavior. There is an entire world inside yourself, and if you let yourself, you can get so deep inside it you will forget the way to the surface. Other people keep our souls alive, just like food and water does with our body.

I think we can provide better stories through providing mentors, and certainly part of my story is providing mentors to kids growing up without dads. I think positive male role models go a long way in terms of rescuing kids from a life of trouble.I think positive male role models go a long way in terms of rescuing kids from a life of trouble.

People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.

I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.

All the trees are losing their leaves, and not one of them is worried.

Your life is a blank page. You write on it.

Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots.