The audience wants you present, not perfect.

All I had was persistence. Turns out that's all you need.

If your short-term goals are too high, you may give up too soon. If your long-term goals are too low, they may not give you enough enthusiasm to drive you over the bumps in the road along the way.

Stage time, stage time, stage time.

To be the best, learn from the best

The biggest mistake made by emerging speakers is that they discount their own experience.

Change is a sheep in wolf's clothing

Don't even think of arguing with me. I'm an old woman and if you fight me about it, it could give me a heart attack.

There is always a story behind what you like. Like what you like and be happy with what you like but don't ever forget to mind the real lessons from the story behind what you like.

Write. Write until it stops hurting.

In the Year 2000 men will finally discover that the reason women go to the bathroom in pairs... is to make out.

The world is full of broken people. Splints, casts, miracle drugs, and time can't mend fractured hearts, wounded hearts, wounded minds, torn spirits.

Often the doorway to success is entered through the hallway of failure.

So far, this is the oldest I've been.

Writers are like eremites or anchorites - natural-born eremites or anchorites - who seem puzzled as to why they went up the pole or into the cave in the first place.

Film is a battleground.

The nonconformist here may be "beat down" by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.