Forever was my heartbeat and it was the hope tomorrow held.

And it was knowing that I could still be ... still be afraid of everyhting, but not letting fear stop me from living

It was me who had to carry myself over the finish line, and all I needed to remember when I felt like not trying was that that feeling wouldn't last forever.

The past never went away and it was not designed to do so. It would always be there, and it should be acknowledged.

People can say crap. They can think whatever they want, but you control how you feel about it.

Goodness, I was already a dork most of the times. I didn't need to be a drunk or high dork.

...literary translators are the interpreters of human values - and the true peacemakers.

Genuine goodness isn’t discovered through postponement but must exist now or not at all. It cannot be based on what is not. We must find it in what is and what we truly see.

Have trembled beneath the pressure of a light beam.

It is up to each voter to evaluate honesty and competency in a factual, therefore fair way.

I will never shy away from embarrassing myself for a good cause

In my experience, the best directors I've worked with hired people for a purpose. They hire them with trust. There's not many notes. There's confidence and support.

We must have an America in which White men and women can live and work, in their homes and in the streets of our cities, without fear.

I started to listen to Japanese jazz musicians when I went to high school. Some people I listened to were Yosuke Yamashita, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Sadao Watanabe.

Passion, for me, is like a shark - it never stops moving.

It's not the appearance that binds you, it's the attachment to the appearance that binds you.