My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like I don't remember them ever being together.

I seen a baby cry seconds later he laughs... the beauty of life, the pain never lasts.

You are perfect exactly as you are. With all your flaws and problems, there's no need to change anything. All you need to change is the thought that you aren't good enough.

To appreciate the sun you gotta know what rain is.

Life is a movie, pick your own role, Climb your own ladder or you dig your own hole.

Anything's possible, you gotta dream like you never seen obstacles.

Keep grindin' boy, your life can change in one year, And even when it's dark out, the sun is shining somewhere

No need to fix what God already put his paint brush on

One thing you should know about me is I never play to lose, Always aim high and rarely obey the rules.

In this life ain't no happy endings; Only pure beginnings followed by years of sinning and fake repentance.

Either you play the game or let the game play you and be that broke sucka talkin bout I stayed true

Man is seldom judged on the basis of his good deeds. If bad in past the good in present doesn’t matter

Instead of crying and begging for your love, you can stand and fight for it.

You should be more afraid of a stupid man than of an evil one.

Then I did The Tao of Steve and that was at Sundance in 2000 where it did really well.

I believe in a magnificent God.

A method of painting is a natural growth out of a need. I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

There is a glory in a great mistake.

I really felt sometimes like I was physically pulling the plot, and it was heavy. I'm sure it didn't look great that I was going into my dressing room at lunch.

To get such beauty from something that has been produced from the artist's own imagination appealed to me enormously.

My belief is that no human being or society composed of human beings ever did or ever will come to much unless their conduct was governed and guided by the love of some ethical ideal.