We are not bound by time. But there are things we cannot speak of because the repercussions of particular thoughts can break lives.

You’re either the one that creates the automation or you’re getting automated.

Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.

I was actually lost in Beirut on the way home.

He must not laugh at his own wheeze: a snuff box has no right to sneeze.

That's one of the tragedies of this life - that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous.

When I'm old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say 'wow, that was an adventure,' not 'wow, I sure felt safe.'

The Beatles did treat me as a member of the group. And that was a great honor, you know?

I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started.

If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.

I think by being happy it actually affects the way that you look too.

We fail to say the right words, because we choose to say the wrong words! We choose to say the wrong words, because we fail to think about the right words!

I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.

It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I've done.

Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

I started putting down my own pen and spending some time searching for the best songs out there possible. It doesn't matter if I wrote them or not.

As Latinas, we tend to be overly partial considering stereotypes. I'm interested in being naughty and edgy.

I didn't want to be president; I didn't want to be governor; I didn't want to be a congress person. I just wanted to be mayor of the city of Detroit. I lived there my entire life.

The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human.

I would describe myself as a hard worker, very humble and focused on whatever it is that I put my mind to.

He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks.