We're really trying to give people the ability to go into a darkened room and have a couple hours of just pure enjoyment.

I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug beefs.

I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.

I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something.

Every time I've learned something, I've realized there are a hundred more things I don't know about the thing I just learned.

Living by example - that's always a better teacher than trying to preach.

Speak up when you're supposed to, as opposed to trying to write prescriptions for the way people should live.

It's important to keep the people who know you well around you. It helps center you.

When I'm the person in front of the microphone, and I'm the person in the light, I want to reflect and refract the light onto places where they need the attention, where I don't need it.

If you look up and no one who's around you has been around you for the past 20 years, and they're all new people, I think that's a problem.

One truth that I know for sure, for me anyway, is that the more you know, the more you realize that you don't know.

FRANCISCUS: How sweetly she looks! Oh, but there's a wrinkle in her brow as deep as philosophy.

Things do not change we change.

When a just cause reaches its flood-tide...whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.

This white man who is saying "it takes time." For three hundred and more years they have had "time," and now it is time for them to listen.

I learn every day what it means to love myself, and I'm constantly figuring out what makes me feel empowered.

Let's die of it before we're too old.

The perfect human being is uninteresting-the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable.

Hence the saying: The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources.