It's pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.

The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's about self-revelation, becoming who you are.

Western films don't do very well in India.

Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself

Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.

If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.

I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.

All good, clean stories are melodrama, it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

Use your time to create yourself

What is more likely? That tomorrow will be called 'Thursday' or that Maxine Waters will play the race card in her ethics investigation?

There is no solution to death.Life intends to kill us.

America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton.

Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison.

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.

Forgive and forget, but never forget to forgive. You may find a happier heart is the key to a happier life.

Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.

I wasn't the biggest, the fastest, the strongest, and then I bought into something called work ethic.

And as a writer now, I want to save Linda's life. Not her body--her life.