I'm past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation.

Everyday has the potential to be the greatest day of your life

I try to let my decisions be guided not by what I think will succeed or fail, but what I'm going to learn from that process.

When I get called in for stuff for Hollywood, I get to be the best friend of the Caucasian leadIf I want to play the main guy, I have found, I have to write it.

You can't control the success or failure of a thing you work on. You can only control the thing you work on.

The distance between where I am and where I want to be seems impossibly large.

Ed Koch once said that New York City is where immigrants come to audition for America. That's what happened to my parents; that's what happened to me.

If you're thinking about the idea in the shower. If you're thinking about the idea while you're walking your dog, there's probably something to it.

I think if you want to make a recipe for making a writer, have them feel a little out of place everywhere, have them be an observer kind of all the time. And that's a great way to make a writer.

I'm not going to hang out with celebrities, I'm not going to parties. I have two songs due for Moana next week, and I'm going to go and spend some time with Maui and Moana in the ocean, in my mind.

I'm just like my country, I'm young, scrappy and hungry, and I'm not throwing away my shot.

For years, I had no time for exploratory travel.

Fantasy love is much better than Reality Love.

On the surface I look fragile and insecure; you have to know me very well.

Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

I am no man, I am dynamite.

Mother, I want to see him fly!

Therefore a curse consumes the earth; its people must bear their guilt. Therefore earth's inhabitants are burned up, and very few are left.

Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.