I just don't believe that you can't make anything happen. I think if something's good and you believe in it, and you care about it, and you give it love and nurture it, it's going to happen.

Every minute doing one thing is a minute not doing something else. Every choice is another choice not made another path grown over lost.

I learned I'm not a good executive, I'm an entrepreneur and I'm creative. I have to go with my gut and do what I want to do.

Relationships are the only thing that matter in business in life.

As soon as you feel comfortable, that's when it's time to start over.

If asked my philosophy, it would be simply this: Savor life, don't press too hard, don't worry too much.

Do not get attatched to the world as it is. Because the world is changing something new is coming.

I can do anything - but that doesn't mean I should do that. I need to enjoy what I do. I enjoy making movies.

It’s been the structure of my life: you scheme and plan and try and fail and try again and accumulate and lose and win back, and then you tell.

Liberace was Elton John and Lady Gaga before they even dreamed of it.

Freedom is saying I want to do this Not that

There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience

Love is the light by which all are brought forward out of darkness.

If you aren't practicing what you preach, how can, and why should, anyone trust you?

Writing fulfils an insatiable drive. Finishing the story satisfies my thirst. But I must keep drinking until the story quenches a buyer.

-Climb out of mediocrity, it has no integrity. Climb out of imitation it is a limitation. Climb higher than copying, it is double standard. Come up to be original

The glory dies not, and the grief is past.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

The academic life is wonderful. That's why people love to do research.

The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.

I don't quite comprehend why you'd force someone to bow when the purpose of the gesture is to display allegiance and respect.