Life is so precious, such a gift, and that you have to live for you.

It doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that's all you need.

God gives everyone a lane and no one can beat you in your lane. Just stay focused on Him and what you are supposed to do. And everything will be alright.

Rather than focus on your critics, focus on the people who are impacted by your work.

Don't wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.

Once you're truly happy with yourself alone, that's when you are safe to find the right person to spend the rest of your life with.

Don't stop. Narrow your focus to one idea, and make it work. That will give birth to all of the others. All you can do is plant the seed and water it.

The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.

You know, people at Wal-Mart are standing there with their uniforms on. I feel like I'm putting on a uniform to do a movie. I don't feel like it's dressing in drag.

A mother’s love is stronger than distance, more powerful than time and can transcend the grave.

Fear is a sprit that really can stop you from living.

God take what He would, " she said. And He did, and He did, and He did and then gave her Halle who gave her freedom when it didn't mean a thing.

My past conduct was so transparent and so honest that when my enemies spread rumours about me nobody believed them.

She was impressed by its simplicity and its seriousness, and the rage she had cultivated with so much love for so many days faded away on the spot.

I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.

What good is the Moon? You can't buy it or sell it.

Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is.

Affirmation statements are going beyond the reality of the present into the creation of the future through the words you use in the now.

Maps are a way of organizing wonder.

I don't know if I want to go to New York. They'll have to pay me a lot more money because I like it here in Kansas City.

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.