Voting for [Donald] Trump Is Voting Against Ourselves.

I don't have to be perfect. All I have to do is show up and enjoy the messy, imperfect and beautiful journey of my life.

I have a deep, deep love for sneakers.

Learn to embrace your own unique beauty, celebrate your unique gifts with confidence. Your imperfections are actually a gift.

Your life is your story, and the adventure ahead of you is the journey to fulfill your own purpose and potential.

I don't think I'm even close to fulfilling my potential. And I think also that, unlike a pianist or a flutist, an actor has an instrument that is constantly changing.

You and you alone are the only person that can live the life that writes the story that you were meant to tell. And the world needs your story because the world needs your voice.

I'm not interested in living in a world where my race is not a part of who I am. I am interested in living in a world where our races, no matter what they are, don't define our trajectory in life.

You can never control how people respond to your work. You can only control your own work ethic.

As long as anyone anywhere is being made to feel less human, our very definition of humanity is at stake, and we are all vulnerable.

To meet somebody who's able to harness the level of courage it takes to walk away and to choose your own life and your own health, the well-being of your family, is really inspiring.

By becoming interested in the cause, we are less likely to dislike the effect.

Probably every lover imagines that his own love is pure, and that others love like beasts.

My darling boy whom I shall never know, My son, I love you in my deepest fears.

Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.

When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience.

The best way to fight evil is to do some good. Let me qualify that—the best way to fight evil at home is to do some good. The best way to fight them abroad is to unleash the military.

Oscove?" Valek paused. "He didn't have the stomach for it.

No, Edward. You are here so I can teach you something. All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you.

The way to grow grand is not: to demand. In life's every field you are what you yield.

To make people laugh was almost a sickness with me.