With success comes more responsibility, a larger size of existence, which is uncomfortable.

No matter where you're from, your dreams are valid.

What I've learned from myself is that I don't have to be anybody else. Myself is good enough.

You can't eat beauty, it doesn't sustain you. What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion, for yourself and those around you. That kind of beauty inflamed the heart and merchants the soul.

You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.

I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be.

What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion: for yourself and for those around you.

There is no shame in black beauty.

You have to allow for the impossible to be possible.

To be human is to seek perfection, and find joy in never attaining it.

I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.

I regret to say I'munable to reply to your unexpressed desires.

All dreams have to come to an end.

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

I really am passionate about making low-budget movies. You can try new stuff and unusual stuff, and you can break the rules.

The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me.

Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.

Vision and priorities should precede actions. Actions should be judged through the prism of how the firm adds value and the key competencies it seeks to build.

To touch God a little with our mind is a great blessing, to grasp him is impossible.

My point is that death is more tragic than life, than any life, because every life has hope of some kind.