Family was a fertile breeding ground for the kind of psychological bacteria that warped minds and devoured hope.

We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.

They don't matter. I thought I had to prove something, and I did, to myself. There's nothing left for me to prove. I can move on with my life.

But then I had long mistaken being spoiled for being strong, being defiant for being independent, being reckless for being brave.

Being rich has never stopped anyone from being greedy.

The horse world is populated by two kinds of people: those who love horses, and those who exploit horses and the people who love them.

Minnesotans hate zeal. Zeal is right up there on the list of suspicious emotional behaviors like joy and despair. Always err on the side of blandness.

The world isn't black and white, Annie, it's shades of grey.

That's the thing about digging holes, ” Quinn said. “There are no assurances you'll find what you want—or want what you find.

Design does need more recognition as thinking and problem-solving process, maybe even a strategic differentiator.

Stress level: extreme. It's like she was a jar with the lid screwed on too tight, and inside the jar were pickles, angry pickles, and they were fermenting, and about to explode.

I'm a bit of a hippie.

At the end of 10 rounds, what you got, unless you have a knockout, of course, and so what you are doing is you are really packaging aggression in its most palatable form.

You must be interested in finding the best way, not in having your own way.

When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.

In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.

I have never known a greater miracle, or monster, than myself.

There's a lot of movies about self absorbed white men and I just figured it's about time to make a movie about self absorbed black men.

Reality TV is here, it's been here really since the Carol Levis Discovery Show in 1957. It's never changed. It just looks a bit different.