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.

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.

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

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

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.

Peace is one thing, revolution is another. You were either impatient or highly optimistic to think one would lead to the other. – Panchali Draupadi.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection not in books alone but in every leaf in springtime.

We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.

Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even?

I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code.

I must have the personal dialogue, the private time, with each painting in progress. I can't share it with anyone until it's done.

We can't kill our way to victory, and no armed force anywhere - no matter how good - can deliver these keys alone. It requires teamwork and cooperation.

With every gig we have to prove ourselves better than the night before.

It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.

I like New York in the spring and in the fall. It's one of the best cities to walk that I've ever been in.