I don't believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

Marriage isn't a carnival ride.

On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.

Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

Karaoke is the great equalizer.

You can only really learn from failure ... To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.

Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.

I don't want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.

When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned.

Whatever you think you are, you are always bigger than that...

Learn from everyone. Follow no one. Watch for patterns. Work like hell.

If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy.

In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them.

If the enemy can keep us occupied, we don't present much opposition.

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

I say things that contradict each other, that are in real tension with each other, that compose me, that make me live, and that will make me die.

A Mario Brother never says 'can't', Luigi!

Farewell,' she said. 'I hope you hear many more songs' - which was the best way she could think of to say good-bye to a butterfly.

I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.