The value of a story isn't that it just has a narcotic effect. It's that it awakens something in you that makes you want to think, that makes you talk to other people, that stirs something that makes you examine the story that eventually turns into self-examination.

There’s nothing you’ve ever been successful at that you didn’t work on every day.

There is no pain worse than not achieving a dream when it is your fault. If God did not want you to have it, that is one thing. But if you do not get what you desire because you are lazy, there is no pain worse than that.

Never lie to people, because the people you are able to lie to, are the people who trust you.

Give me about 10 years, I'm going to run for President. If I can squeeze in an NBA championship before that, I'll do it.

The greatest experience I've ever had in a movie theater was watching "Star Wars." It shaped how I look at the world. My imagination was so small before I went in that theater and there was an explosion in my head. I just couldn't figure out how someone came up with it.

I'm not afraid to die on a treadmill.