Evening's soft solitude Surrounds the dayEmitting precious peace.

Don’t grieve when people fail to recognize your ability. Grieve for your lack of ability instead.

If being ugly was a crime, they'd be hunting that woman down with helicopters and bloodhounds.

Creating new paths requires moving old obstacles.

Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

A lot of it revolves around food with me because a lot of my life does in a way.

Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

My father says that fear is good; it's the body's alarm system, it warns us of danger. But sometimes danger can't be avoided, and then you have to forget about being afraid.

All education which develops power to share effectively in social life is moral.

I grew up in a Hollywood family with money, so money is not the reason I make music. I'm as Hollywood as it gets. Not internally but externally - that's my bloodline.

You live for those really great scenes where you almost feel that the film has gone beyond what was printed on the script pages and been raised to another level.