You will never know all there is to know. You will learn until your final days. Then you will inspire someone else. This is what an artist does.

The secret is not to make your music louder. But to make the world quieter.

Silence enhances music. What you do not play can sweeten what you do. But it is not the same with words. What you do not say can haunt you.

There is a reason you glance up when you first hear a melody, or tap your foot to the sound of a drum. All humans are musical. Why else would the Lord give you a beating heart?

One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows.

Loneliness was like an ogre hovering over those activities

Memories are not in places, Papa. Memories are in your mind. They're here, too.

some things you endure for a reason

At a certain point, your life is more about your legacy to your kids than anything else.

True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up.

To some extent the romantic condemnation of rationality stems from the very effectiveness of rationality in uplifting men from primitive conditions.

There's always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.

Timmy, he's the beginning of it. He doesn't have to be the end all the time now.

I never tried to be Jay Z or Big Poppa, I'm underground like them dead children buried in Gaza

The desire to write a novel is the single required prerequisite for writing a novel.

Stop it now and take control. Write this on a card and pin it up where you can see it... MY THOUGHTS CONTROL MY LIFE!

Feelings are determined by how one chooses to respond to various situations and events.

The main thing on film is you want to be innocent to the moment.

But at one point, Craig was talking about something, and Sam turned to me and smiled. It was a movie smile in slow motion, and then everything was okay.