Hospitality is one of the things the Afghan population is famous for, but nobody says that anymore. Now they're terrorists - and they're not. They're people.

Too often, we spend our days thinking about what we don't have rather than what we do have. Be grateful every day.

There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white.

The best education I have ever received was through travel.

Refrain from being too judgmental. You'll often be surprised by what people have to offer.

Try to accomplish things you have always dreamt of while you can. I know it sounds cliché, but the biggest lesson I have learned is that life is precious; enjoy it while it lasts.

We have to start seeing people as human beings. Our entire humanity depends on that.

We live in a culture where were bombarded with so much noise and so much insecurity.

I like crunchy things like Baked Lays.

My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events.

Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.

How much we can do, depends on how much we THINK we can do.

Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.

I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep.

This is the fourth movie that I've done with this set of director-writers and I've learned to trust them at this point, because actually I started on Lego before they did.

When things hurt us, we're merely on our way to another spiritual environment.

You might like it as a joke or because you liked it then, but there isn't a whole new generation discovering Wham!.

The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat.

You're constantly changing man. But the film's not changing. The film stays the same. That's the beautiful aspect of it.

If I swung the gavel the way I swung that golf club, the nation would be in a helluva mess.

God is living in New York, and he's a Mets fan.