It shouldn't take a life-changing event to spark change in your life.

You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.

Time spent doing whatever it is you do to escape your daily life would be better spent acquiring a life that needs no escape.

At some point your candle will go out, so make use of the light.

I have often believed the pen to be a needle, and ink to be a thread. Each story is an intricately woven tapestry and with each word I invariably sew a piece of myself into the page.

It shouldn't take a life-changing event for you to change your life.

I may be going nowhere, but what a ride.

And the man who dreamt of flight has tripped and fallen in a hole.

We are more than the person who wakes each day. We are the dreams of the previous night and the nightmares of the week before.

The death of a lesser man is the death of all those who believe themselves to be greater.

This is for you, for your breath, whose absence would lessen a greater world.

Because of you, I can see and realize the beauty of life.

Two went to pray? Better to say one went to brag the other to pray.

Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.

I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.

The man who has no mind of his own lends it to the priests.

I don't find movies interesting. I just want to do the movies that made me interested in getting into movies, and they're few and far between.

I'm very grateful that President Obama has lifted the restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.

Every man's religion is his own, and nobody else's business.

I think that there's a lot of guys out there that want to read the equivalent of chick lit, but really there's not being much written for them.

Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.