If gods are transcendent ideas, then the idea of a god IS a god.

I'm the idea of the human imagination, which, when you think about it, is the only thing we can really be certain ISN'T imaginary.

You shape your own destiny.

If you want to change the world, first change your heart.

Each living art object, taken out of its native habitat so we can conveniently gaze at it, is like an animal in a zoo. Something about it has died in the removal.

I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

Elementary school children are very impressionable

You must...know that you are great. Never forget that. It is where true joy lies.

Hairspray is the only movie I made that's subversive, because they're doing it in every high school in America. A man's playing a woman, and two men sing a love song to each other.

See God in every person, place, and thing, and all will be well in your world.

In the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They will assume you don’t care about them or don’t like them.

Learning by doing is the only way I know how to learn.