Haste makes work which caution prevents.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.

But even a kid, directing was something that I did. I made short films in school. I feel like I've been in the best film school in the world.

Love was in the air, so both of us walked through love on our way to the corner.

I love the fact that I have a show where you can run over a kid and everyone busts out laughing.

Being a teenager and figuring out who you are is hard enough without someone attacking you.

Through a tree we were made debtors to God; so through a tree we have our debt canceled.

From adolescence to death there is something very personal about being a Negro in America.

Some people just don't want to see change, but thankfully there are a lot of people more optimistic for something new in music, even with the bigger picture like with Barack Obama getting elected.

If your life is going to be dictated by what's comfortable, your life will stink.

If you're doing something radically new, you need a team that's willing to go on a ride that's very different from anything they've encountered before.

Music and movie scripts are books. You want to be literally moved and that's the sort of things I look for.