I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.

I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster be more effective be more productive you have to constantly outdo yourself you have to constantly outdo your neighbor - all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society but also a very neurotic one.

The little things I can obey. But the big things - how we think what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.

You have to promote yourself you have to have this smile on your face all the time and be this nice guy - which I am!

Even if you're unhappy just pretend that you're happy. Eventually your smile will be contagious to yourself. I had to learn that. I used to think 'I'm being fake ' but you know what? Better to be fake and happy than real and miserable.

If you force yourself to smile within a couple minutes you feel happy.

Allowing yourself to smile takes 99% of the effort.

There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine yourself to even doing historical revisionist fiction whatever you want to call it - mash-ups gimmick lit absurdist fiction - I don't know if I want to do that anymore.

Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely for science is but one.

It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.

The poem is sad because it wants to be yours and cannot be.

What's sad is that there is an addictive quality to that to believing your own hype to allowing yourself to become validated by others and no longer by yourself. That's the danger of celebrity.

The waltz can be sad and at the same time uplifting. You have to see life from both sides and the waltz encapsulates that. If you're in my audience you give yourself to me and the waltz will grab you.

It's very rare that things are true about yourself that are on the Internet. It's just sad sometimes. So you definitely try and stay away from it as much as possible.

It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.

Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.

Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.

Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging but to do anything well you have to put yourself into it.

The worst thing that an actor can do is go into any project with a lack of respect for the material. You can have an opinion about it but you have to respect yourself in doing it.

I did learn that it was the greatest thing in the world to respect yourself. Respect other people.

In my old age I've come to find that if you respect other people you feel better about yourself.

The more you make fun of yourself and don't try to go for any kind of respect the more people seem to respect you.

Your private life is your private life and you keep it to yourself. You get more respect that way.