All I wanted to do was please my adopted family.

It takes a strong character for a person to say, 'I can't do it.

At first I could not believe what I was reading. I got up from my seat and walked away, talking to myself that I may have found my mom.

I really believe in the last name Hoffa being something powerful. You want to live your life to bring honor to that name.

When you're growing up, you want to feel part of something.

You want to try to find your heritage.

When you have lost people like I lost my birth mom at a young age and you remember the whole process of losing her, you want to grab on to something that makes you whole.

Do you want to give a special gift in the New Year to someone you love? Then let him or her realize this: We are the main shepherd of our fate, we are the main designer of our destiny!

Gratitude is an excellent attitude which can lift you to a greater altitude if you put it on as a vesture.

The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.

What's your brand? If you can't answer that question about your own brand in two or three words, your brand's in trouble.

I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano.

I'm a promoter of the people for the people and by the people and my magic lies in my people ties.

I'd like to have the script in a much better place from day one of shooting, rather than trying to continue to work on it while you shoot it. I think those are lessons you learn on any film.

Let the black flower blossom as it may!

The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action.

You don't scream because you're scared. You scream on purpose.