I believe that my connection, to my higher power, is separate from everybody’s. I don’t believe that the Muslims have all the answers. I don’t believe the Christians have all the answer, or the Jews have all the answers...

There’s a redemptive power that making a choice has rather than feeling like you’re an effect to all the things that are happening. Make a choice. Just decide what it’s gonna be, who you’re gonna be, how you are going to do it. Just decide. And from that point, the universe will get out of your way.

The best feeling in the world is knowing that you actually mean something to someone.

On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.'

You might be [outshining me in many ways]. But if we get on a treadmill, there are two things: you're getting off first or I'm going to die. It's that simple, right?

The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.

I do not have to build a perfect wall today. I just have to lay a perfect brick.