Some people study a text very deeply. The people are my text. I study their words and what their words sound like, over and over again.

What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.

Each person has a literature inside them.

Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

Be more than ready. Be present in your discipline. Remember your gift. Be grateful for your gift and treat it like a gift. Cherish it, take care of it, and pass it on.

You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.

Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.

I was a big Superman fan, growing up. I've always been a big superhero fan.

Our character is our will; for what we will we are.

I'm convinced my cockroaches have military training, I set off a roach bomb - they diffused it.

In the state of Michigan, where I served in the state Legislature, there was a lot of shuffling of money between one year and the other to balance the budget.

Here again you confuse and mix everything up in your usual way.

I was the first Indian model to have a career in Paris, Milan and New York. I am the first one to admit I was a novelty.

The human body is an incredible machine, but most people only get out of that machine what their mind allows them to.

Opposition is not necessarily enmity.

The only two things in life that make it worth livin' / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin' women