everything is negotiable. everything.

You get what you give, but also what you're willing to take.

Make a pledge to yourself right now, to declare that you are worth your time and energy.

In the business world, there is no gray. Either you are black, or you are white-washed.

Mom's smiles were the most beautiful thing in the world, and they almost always made things better. They almost even made an early bedtime okay, but not quite.

The welfare of a people lies not in casting other peoples down but in peaceful collaboration.

The more things you own, the more they own you.

Todd [Phillips] doesn't care. That's part of his genius as a director, he will say anything to anybody.

I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine.

Anything is possible if you wish hard enough.

I think that this media online stuff makes us all sick. We think we have to be online all the time.