...I started to realize how many great things could happen by confronting the things that scare you most.

Without inspiration, we’re all like a box of matches that will never be lit.

I made up my mind not to care so much about the destination, and simply enjoy the journey.

Sometimes when you least expect it, the tables turn and that scary feeling that has taken hold of you for so long somehow turns into hope

One day I realized, I am what I'm looking for. The love I've been searching the world for. When I devoutly love myself it's fulfilling, and it attracts others. They fight to love me twice as much.

Happiness is a temporary recurring human experience.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don't care who people are as long as they're themselves, whatever that is.

Music, at the end of the day, is communicating something - emotion, a feeling, a rite of passage, where you are in life.

I'm the biggest Chekov fan - there's something that he does that not many other writers do.

A film is not done by one person. It's done by a lot of people. I love this whole collaborative aspect. When it works well, you end up with something better than any of us started out to do.

Sleep is a prison for a boy who has friends to meet.

We are equal inhabitants of a paradise of individuals in which everybody has the right to be understood.

I don't want to be so confident in myself.

Always, as you travel, assimilate the sounds and sights of the world.