Don't lose faith in what you are trying to do, even though you will get pummeled emotionally left and right. There are a lot of "nos" to any "yes." And that's OK.

Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.

Let your heart beat for music. Don't be a DJ for the wrong reasons, do it because you have a passion for it.

God gives His toughest battles to His strongest soldiers.

I'm still the person who naively thinks if I can imagine it, I can have it.

When you are free from self-doubt, you fail better. You accept criticism and listen.

I think if you create well balanced characters that are well represented, boys and girls relate to them whether they're boys or girls.

Chinese cooking is noisy - a multitasking activity that requires constant vigilance. There is no downtime.

If you wanna do a film where you have a big scope, you've got to make your characters relatable and genuine.

If you don't want the nickname, don't live up to it.

With a film, things constantly have to go up in the story, and you're constantly putting pressure on the main character. It allows to go really deep into what its relationship is.

God’s grace does not require a condition to abound. However to obtain the promises of his blessings, you have to strive for it, fight for it, work hard for it and insist upon it.

In July of 1983, I left Washington, DC area and have had minimal contact with Judge Clarence Thomas since

Ha! Easy for nuns to talk about giving up things. That's what they do for a living.

It's more intimate. Food can connect people in a forever sort of way.

If the empire of superstition and hypocrisy should be overthrown, happy indeed will it be for the world; but if all religion and morality should be over-thrown with it, what advantage will be gained?

I've always been the sort of guy who's happiest doing more than one thing at a time.

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . .

The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

Toughest thing for me as a young manager is that a lot of my players saw me play. They know how bad I was.