I plan my life in 15-minute sections.

Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.

To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.

Even in its darkest passages, the heart is unconquerable. It is important that the body survives, but it is more meaningful that the human spirit prevails.

When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process.

It is important for people to know that no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dark side and press on the a brighter world.

Everyone picked on me in school because I was in foster care.

I still love my former wife, I won't call her my ex-wife.

Ask yourself: was there anything I could have done to prevent the situation? If the answer is yes, do something now and become a better person for it.

You have to understand that in a person's life there are a few precious moments in which decisions, choices that you make now, will affect you for the rest of your life.

You can be a victim of cancer, or a survivor of cancer. It's a mindset.

Do what you think is right. Don't let people make the decision of right or wrong for you.

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.

He who cannot swim should neither chase the dolphins nor play with sharks. For him disaster awaits like sunrise.

The little weasel ripped all the buttons off my couch.Ivan Petrovsky, pg 350

The whole point to being here, really, is to figure a way to get out.

I'm married. I'm not attracted to any other woman, ever.

My first strong musical memory is of the Villa-Lobos Sixth Quartet which my parents were rehearsing. I remember that it reminded me of big teddy bears dancing around.

Life, deal gently with her ... Love, never desert her

To me the director’s job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.

I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back.