I'm a huge Dirty Dancing fan. I feel like I should be reading [William] Shakespeare, but I'm watching Baby not be in a corner.

If your dream only includes you, it's too small.

Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal.

Figure out what you need to do to be the heroine of your own story.

Don't wait for permission to do something creative.

If you're doing something outside of dominant culture there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.

When you're in your lane, there's no traffic.

We have to find new ways to work without permission, new ways to turn corners and go through doors that are closed off to us to create our own audiences and our own material independently.

I've passed along some advice that Oprah [Winfrey] gave to me: When something bad is happening, it's not happening to you; it's happening for you.

Stop asking, start doing.

If your work is solid, it really doesn't matter what people you know because good work starts to rise to the top.

I know, I'm an idiot!" Leo moaned. "A brilliant idiot, but still an idiot.

It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's.

You dont have to let your life be destroyed by diabetes. You can reclaim your life.

Those who are looking for paradise on Earth should come and see Dubrovnik.

I think the music is relevant and if people are into the music, they're going to be into it regardless of when it comes from.

I don't read the "letters" section of Time magazine. I think it's just my habit as a reader. I don't read comments on stories, in general.

The seeker asking, Where is God? Is really God saying, Where indeed is the seeker!

Dare to dream, live with passion. Make your life an epic extraordinary adventure!

He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes to its maximum only to the man who has given up golf.

Angry Black White Boy is bananas! Actually, it's a banana split with razor blades in it. Adam Mansbach is the white Richard Wright, and Angry Black White Boy is our generation's Native Son.