the most important things can't be lassoed with language. The most important things can only be felt.

love, real love, comes with three conditions - respect, kindness and trust. It isn't, and should never be, unconditional.

Everybody's good when they're good, darling. You don't judge a person by that. It's how they act when things aren't good that tells you who they really are.

Birth, life, and death― each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.

When I say Be Perfect - it means BE AUTHENTICALLY YOURSELF in expressing your feelings, without any external interference!

Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do it.

When he smiles, they mostly look away. But Martin likes to think they carry his smile for a few blocks – that even the smallest gesture is something grand.

Sometimes I only hope to make a good popcorn movie.

Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep

There's nothing more precious in this world than the feeling of being wanted.

We're very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves

I had tried to come up with a superhero comic, but it didn't work 'cause I wasn't a superhero artist, and I left it unfinished.

To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.