Engaging in new creative projects keeps me energized. I feel deeply grateful for all of the opportunities that life has given me.

I'm a little bit antisocial and I recently discovered that I'm introverted. But the love between people makes me alive.

Artists and celebrities are citizens, and as such you have a responsibility to keep fighting for justice because there are monolithic power structures and systemic oppression out there.

I see people whose spirits are not broken, who continue to work for justice. That makes me feel alive, when I witness their work, and then I witness some of their dreams come to fruition.

Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown.

Love is selflessness and self-fullness; it can only be known deeply with an open, vulnerable heart.

I don't think any human being is truly free. We're so tethered to our own insecurities and hampered by our fears and our prejudices. I think it's human nature that we're never going to be free.

The prize is always worth the rocky ride.

Begin my studies with the paper and this pencil and i'm working through the grammar of my fears.

It's in our blind trust that love will find us, just like it has before.

You set up your place in my thoughts, moved in and made my thinking crowded.

Sin is passionate lust in the flesh.

You shouldn't look too far to find people to care about or people who will care about you. Because if you stop looking, the people who do care will come looking for you.

Seeing, looking at what others cannot bear to see is what my life is all about.

This war is being played in the realm of public opinion and has dire consequences for our soldiers in Iraq, the future of our country, and freedom around the world.

You don't show up on game day and expect to be great. Greatness happens in practice. You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

I get emotional when young people get nostalgic about my work. That's why it's called nostalgia. Sometimes I even cry.

Whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day, let him say something good or keep quiet.

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

As long as the vice of gluttony has a hold on a man, all that he has done valiantly is forfeited by him: and as long as the belly is unrestrained, all virtue comes to naught.

The primary asset of any business is its organization.