It's nice to be short, because people expect less from you.

Change the world by being yourself.

We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work, it doesn't matter. But work is third.

Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken.

Symmetry is pleasing but not as sexy. Einstein is cool but Picasso knows what I'm talking about.

There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do.

I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.

If your career is a bad boyfriend, it is healthy to remember you can always leave and go sleep with somebody else.

Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know.

Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.

You never know what's around the corner unless you peek. Hold someone's hand while you do it. You will feel less scared.

You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, blended as one.

Be my friend and love me, for the world is terrible lonely and I am sad.

I believe people instinctively know that about writing, yet people get confused about that when it comes to acting.

We must know, if only in order to learn not to know. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere.

Even colors were important to me. If it was a somber scene, the colors were muted and dark. If it was a happy or seductive scene, the colors were brighter.

When we lack integrity, we use power to control. When we lead with integrity, we use power to bless.

The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that, perhaps, is what makes him different from others.

I always had a dream about trying to make a movie that had no dialogue in it, that was just music and pictures. I still haven't done it yet, but I tried to get close in the beginning.

Like most Christians, I believe the Genesis account of creation is a description of six different stages of creation, each of which may have taken eons of time.

At some point in my life I would like to win a Grammy. I think that would be a good thing to do.