Time alone is the gift of self-entertainment - and that is the font of creativity

Everyday has the potential to be the greatest day of your life

I'm past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation.

I try to let my decisions be guided not by what I think will succeed or fail, but what I'm going to learn from that process.

When I get called in for stuff for Hollywood, I get to be the best friend of the Caucasian leadIf I want to play the main guy, I have found, I have to write it.

You can't control the success or failure of a thing you work on. You can only control the thing you work on.

The distance between where I am and where I want to be seems impossibly large.

Ed Koch once said that New York City is where immigrants come to audition for America. That's what happened to my parents; that's what happened to me.

If you're thinking about the idea in the shower. If you're thinking about the idea while you're walking your dog, there's probably something to it.

I think if you want to make a recipe for making a writer, have them feel a little out of place everywhere, have them be an observer kind of all the time. And that's a great way to make a writer.

I'm not going to hang out with celebrities, I'm not going to parties. I have two songs due for Moana next week, and I'm going to go and spend some time with Maui and Moana in the ocean, in my mind.

I am happy and content because I think I am.

For seventy years we have been brushing our teeth and yet they have not become clean, so is that thing for real or is it a falsity?

Don't mistake dramatics for a conscience.

When you have a good time there is no time.

In America, we are putting our energy companies out of business. We have to bring back our workers.

We are the people of life, because God, in His unconditional love, has given us the Gospel of Life, and we are called to act accordingly.

Any good that comes our way doesn't come to us solely because we have done something good, but because God is good.

If you are afraid of making mistakes, you won't learn anything and you won't make much money.

Propaganda rarely makes good art.

You write things that are of interest to you. There's no focus group.