In work, never have any regrets and always leave everything on the field.

Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you. If it's what you want to do and it's within yourself, then keep going and try to do it for the rest of your life.

Every journey starts with fear.

Do you know what fear stands for? False Evidence Appearing Real.

Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you.

I was listening to this Adele song, where she's like, "When we were young..." I was like, "You're 27. Are you kidding me?

Romance is important, but to have a friend you can use as a mirror, who can give you an objective response, that's what's really important.

I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.

By cool, I don't mean cool. I mean vulnerable and a mess.

Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.

I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to

We need to see our collective mind as the vehicle that will take us to the destiny of our dreams

Novels should be judged rigorously. Either a book works or it doesn't. The fact that something is true in the real world should not lend authority to it in fiction.

The scientist finds his reward in what Henri Poincare calls the joy of comprehension, and not in the possibility of application to which any discovery may lead.

We need more radicalism among us before we can speak as becomes a suffering, oppressed, and persecuted people.

I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.

I am very interested in bringing companies from everywhere to sell their products in China.

Set your goals and go out and do what you need to do to get it.

A virtue of the free enterprise system is that it offers every individual the greatest opportunity for self expression.

Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!

You can't make anything authentic by asking people what they want because they don't know what they want. That's what they're looking at you for.