Love is about giving freedom and power, not about gaining control or possession.

True happiness comes when you give your best in something beyond yourself.

Hope is a gift we give ourselves in our darkest despair.

A single thread of hope is stronger than all the chains that bind you.

I have come face to face with many truths from the past that had to be revised with present knowledge.

Failure, loss and defeat are just mile markers on the road to success.

There is no greater success as when you turn your enemy into your ally.

Success comes not from having certainty, but being able to live with uncertainty.

Success involves avoiding the lure of making excuses.

Success involves going to where others believe is too far.

An attitude of gratitude increases abundance and diminishes fear.

Evidently, I'd suffered an epiphany: the subconscious realization that when it comes to coolness, nothing the human race has ever invented is more cool than a book.

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.

Be not forward, but friendly and courteous; the first to salute, hear and answer; and be not pensive when it is time to converse.

No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers.

As long as the White House is deadly serious, which they tell me they are, I'll help them anyway I can.

I think the blues will always be around. People need it.

Liberty of conscience is nowadays only understood to be the liberty of believing what men please, but also of endeavoring to propagate that belief as much as they can.

I didn't realize then what a privilege that was: to be bored with your best friend; to have time to waste.

To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.

I put so much pop culture in my movies because we speak about pop culture all the time. But, for some reason, movies exist in a world where there's no pop culture.