People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while.

In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.

Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.

Be positive, be positive. It's rough out there, but don't succumb. Don't succumb to the cynicism in the world.

I have heard your words and your disappointment, and I offer you a heart-felt apology to all who felt this was an odd or misguided casting choice.

The future isn't just something that happens. It's a brutal force, with a great sense of humor, that'll steamroll you if you're not watching.

I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me.

Take it from your own life, write what you believe in.

Optimism is a revolutionary act

The power of music is still with me, every day. It's one of the most inspiring things available in the world.

Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.

Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.

When homeless people go camping, how do they know?

Good intentions, regular worship, Bible study, do not prevent blindness. Part of our sinful nature instinctively chooses to see what we want to see and to ignore what we want to ignore.

The mere habit of writing, of constantly keeping at it, of never giving up, ultimately teaches you how to write.

madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom

If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.

It is nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways.

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.

Stop learning. Start knowing

In a way, “failure” is just another word for “the journey,” for not being there yet but on the way. It’s the road we walk on to get wherever it is we’re trying to go.