The world is your oyster...YOU determine the value of the pearl!

We can never achieve and succeed without first making excellence second nature.

Happiness, ... even the smallest happiness, is like a step out of Time, and the greatest happiness is sharing in Eternity.

If I could make a dream real, I would not kill anything unless it could never be changed at heart.

Be a control freak and people will avoid you. Live and let live, and people will get closer to you and do the same for you.

Do you know how many people would give anything for what you have? Not the fame or wealth—the opportunity to wake up tomorrow healthy, pain free and with a future stretching out before them?

I’m clinging to one last thought: pain is the harbinger of hope. You have to be alive to feel pain. If you are alive, then you have purpose. If you have purpose, then you have hope.

The solution to government surveillance is to encrypt everything.

The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie.

You're like something drawn with the sun's fire, and I can take only little glimpses of you.

White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.

It's very worrying at this time in the world that any point of view should be prohibited, that's banned, there are heretics that should be burned at the stake.