What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.

I don't care about what brand you are, I'm concerned what type of man you are, what your principles and standards are.

Fear not of men because men must die. Mind over matter and soul before flesh.

I dreamt that I could paint you with words, but there were no colors bright enough, black or white enough, blue or green enough...they didn't mean enough

Make today's solid ground out of yesterday's quicksand.

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.

They say that when a man faces his destiny, the destiny ends and he becomes the man that he really is.

It’s one thing to be the greatest; it’s another thing to be necessary. The best are the most necessary: those who take less than they give and love more than they hate.

My presence speaks volumes before I say a word.

That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.

I don't want to waste anyone's time or money. I want to give people some truth and positive heart lift.

In other circumstances, Ivan might have offered him a job. Sadly, with a few notable meta exceptions, dead men didn’t code very well.

It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

Medical tourism can be considered a kind of import: instead of the product coming to the consumer, as it does with cars or sneakers, the consumer is going to the product.

I always wanted to make movies no matter what. It's true. No matter how I was getting to do it, that's what I wanted to do.

Never trust the food in a restaurant on top of the tallest building in town that spends a lot of time folding napkins.

The hours Facebook users put into their profiles and lists and updates is the labor that Facebook then sells to the market researchers and advertisers it serves.

I've been lucky to have things come to me that creatively fulfill me, and those are usually the independent films just because you have a little bit more freedom.

I've found that it's a great stress reliever to get adjusted. It takes away a lot of the tightness in the muscles.

I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.

Hiphop has remained in an infantile stage and has not been allowed to grow.