Once George Washington said, "I have to step down the so the country can move on."

Everyday has the potential to be the greatest day of your life

I'm past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation.

I try to let my decisions be guided not by what I think will succeed or fail, but what I'm going to learn from that process.

When I get called in for stuff for Hollywood, I get to be the best friend of the Caucasian leadIf I want to play the main guy, I have found, I have to write it.

You can't control the success or failure of a thing you work on. You can only control the thing you work on.

The distance between where I am and where I want to be seems impossibly large.

Ed Koch once said that New York City is where immigrants come to audition for America. That's what happened to my parents; that's what happened to me.

If you're thinking about the idea in the shower. If you're thinking about the idea while you're walking your dog, there's probably something to it.

I think if you want to make a recipe for making a writer, have them feel a little out of place everywhere, have them be an observer kind of all the time. And that's a great way to make a writer.

I'm not going to hang out with celebrities, I'm not going to parties. I have two songs due for Moana next week, and I'm going to go and spend some time with Maui and Moana in the ocean, in my mind.

He was a Parisian, ’ he said. ‘You can never be sure what Parisians believe in – beyond Paris of course.

When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as "animals", yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity.

I mean, if you think about - if you think about it, UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? No, they are. It's the Post Office that's always having problems.

To get squares you have to give up squares.

Once I finished, I got that procrastination monkey off my back! And I started seeing doors opening.

A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be.

Of course, I have the emotional ups and downs of pregnancy, like crying jags for no reason and then the next day I can't even remember what I was crying about!

I'm an old-school type of guy.

No one has schizophrenia, like having a cold. The patient has not "got" schizophrenia. He is schizophrenic.

Gladiators seek to best all, it is how they survive