Doesn't matter how menial may be the job that you're doing today. If you have dreams, that will turn into something positive in the future.

I'm not a genius. I just worked really, really hard, and I want our generation, our children and our future generations to realize that they can fulfill the same dreams.

You have to have passion for everything you do, and you've got to look at the positive side.

The same skills that I used as a welder, as a migrant farm worker, are similar skills that I'm using as a brain surgeon.

I'm just a regular guy. I want people to realize that I embody the true American dream. I work hard. I went to school.

To hear the amount of hate that people have in the United States is disheartening. However, I still have hope that we have not reached the pinnacle.

I'm not a politician, I'm not an economist. I'm just a simple Brian surgeon and a scientist who's trying to do my best every day.

Sometimes I struggled to say something meaningful only to learn that silence is just as powerful as words.

The more the problems in a society, the greater the chances of success.

The problem with guilt was not how it attacks the present, but how it stained the past. Hindsight was a blemish on memory.

The biggest challenge for any craft person or artist is to accept the constraints of their medium and make something beautiful despite them. That's kind of fun, actually.

I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.

I don't ever want to be an average fourth starter. I want to be the big guy.

R&b, poetry, I'd like to do everything. But I'm an entertainer and entertaining is not just music. I can do comedy; I'm one of those guys, I can stand up there with a mic. I'm not gonna freeze.

The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.

Theres so much to becoming a woman.

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

Though very troublesome to others, anger is most so to him that has it.