Honestly, that is the most important thing to me: Can I continue to live up to my own expectations of myself - and not fall back into slacking?

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

There is no greater glory than love nor any greater punishment than jealousy.

As for 'Independence Day,' we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one.

If you want to hear God laugh, tell Him your plans.

You can't play history and you can't play historical characters. You just have to reduce it to the ordinary.

When it's easy to make money, you have no incentive to think about development of talent.

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.

To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own

Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project.