Marvin Gaye was a killer drummer. I think he just played during the soundchecks and he'd have another guy sing his parts while he played the drums. He just wanted to play the drums and have some fun.

All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

We are most alive when we're in love.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Passion is momentary love is enduring.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.

Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.

We can’t choose our poetic fathers any more than our biological ones — but we can choose how to come to terms with them.

Neither a fake friend nor a liar can be trusted, with a secret.

During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved.

The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance to the drums of the rose of joy.

I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't matter.

Improved productivity is another direct benefit of globalization.

I think I would have a very, very good relationship with Vladimir Putin, and I think I would have a very, very good relationship with Russia.

No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.

The inadequacy of the purely purpose-oriented form is revealed for what it is-a monotonous, impoverished boring practicality.