Don't wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.

It doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that's all you need.

God gives everyone a lane and no one can beat you in your lane. Just stay focused on Him and what you are supposed to do. And everything will be alright.

Rather than focus on your critics, focus on the people who are impacted by your work.

Once you're truly happy with yourself alone, that's when you are safe to find the right person to spend the rest of your life with.

Don't stop. Narrow your focus to one idea, and make it work. That will give birth to all of the others. All you can do is plant the seed and water it.

The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.

You know, people at Wal-Mart are standing there with their uniforms on. I feel like I'm putting on a uniform to do a movie. I don't feel like it's dressing in drag.

A mother’s love is stronger than distance, more powerful than time and can transcend the grave.

Fear is a sprit that really can stop you from living.

It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.

Democracy can exist only in the countries where people are brave! Coward nations always live under the authoritarian regimes!

The biggest thing I possess is infinite patience. Once you are patient, things fall in place.

The word is like an object - we were thinking "bloom," "doom." It encapsulated tons: the bloom, the end of the bloom, and then coming back the next year.

Truth cannot be taught but it is quickly recognised by the person ready to discover it.

I'm terrible in the kitchen. I was mostly raised by my mother and she could cook, so I never perfected that skill. If I had to count on my own cooking to survive, I'd probably be thinner.

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

I prefer a dirty victory to a noble defeat.

Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward--or go back

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.