You can't be a 25-year-old forever.

I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.

You learn so much from taking chances, whether they work out or not. Either way, you can grow from the experience and become stronger and smarter.

I was a busy kid in high school - a little bit of an overachiever, I guess. Prom king was kind of silly, but the rest of the stuff was important to me.

Soul is about authenticity. Soul is about finding the things in your life that are real and pure.

We all must follow a different path to let our light shine, and that's what makes us so unpredictable and unique.

The best way to fight poverty is to empower people through access to quality education

I keep learning, listening, growing and experimenting.

When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.

Love your curves and all your edges All your perfect imperfections

The future started yesterday, and we're already late.

Formerly the master selected the slave; today the slave selects his master.

The kindest thing a director can do is look with open eyes at everything.

I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.

Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.

In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.

You never know how things will work out. After all the bad reasons in the world, some good came out.

Never hesitate to take what you think are small things to God; after all, EVERYTHING is small to God.

All those who are unhappy in the world are so as a result of their desire for their own happiness. All those who are happy in the world are so as a result of their desire for the happiness of others.

When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.

He who does not live in the way of his beliefs starts to believe in the way he lives.