What I know about me is that, in order to lead, you also have to know how to follow.

It doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that's all you need.

God gives everyone a lane and no one can beat you in your lane. Just stay focused on Him and what you are supposed to do. And everything will be alright.

Rather than focus on your critics, focus on the people who are impacted by your work.

Don't wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.

Once you're truly happy with yourself alone, that's when you are safe to find the right person to spend the rest of your life with.

Don't stop. Narrow your focus to one idea, and make it work. That will give birth to all of the others. All you can do is plant the seed and water it.

The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.

You know, people at Wal-Mart are standing there with their uniforms on. I feel like I'm putting on a uniform to do a movie. I don't feel like it's dressing in drag.

A mother’s love is stronger than distance, more powerful than time and can transcend the grave.

Fear is a sprit that really can stop you from living.

I wanted a life full of intrigue and mystery, new environments, and new people...[a] temporary life with no fear of being trapped,

You can't tell the audience — well, you can, but I don't like to tell the audience — that anything they're watching doesn't matter.

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.

We are quite small in the big scheme of things.

He always had a chip on his shoulder that he was ready to use to kindle an argument.

I definitely have sympathy for people who are struggling. I've met with young Muslims who have told me about their struggles.

To be a colored man in America ... and enjoy it, you must be greatly daring, greatly stolid, greatly humorous and greatly sensitive. And at all times a philosopher.

You believe in God? Believe also in your imagination.

Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation.