Cheers to all the Rebels out there who care way too much about Art and Truth and Magic to fall in line with the mundane task of fitting in.

There's just as much wisdom in knowing when to keep quiet as there is in knowing when to speak up. Use your voice wisely.

In my experience, it is always worth it to find the love that lives inside you. No matter how deep you have to dig sometimes.

Give people a chance.

Shit works out.

A happiness trick:do more things that make you happy, and you'll be happy more often.

There is absolutely no point in comparing ourselves to others. Everyone brings to the world exactly what they are meant to bring, and in doing so touches exactly who they are meant to touch.

No one determines your truth but you.You can’t paint your own self-portrait with someone else’s hand.

I finally stopped seeking in others everything I could only find in myself.

We can’t heal what we refuse to acknowledge.

I can’t control my feelings, but I’m learning to have a say in how much my feelings control me.

For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power.

As is always the case, events do not conform easily to the generalizations historians produce to try to make sense of the past.

A leader should have the same attitude of God’s love toward people.

One thing that I tell people all the time is, 'I'm not going to answer a call from you after nine o'clock at night or before nine o'clock in the morning unless it's an emergency.'

Beauty is a fragile gift.

Before you can steal fire from the Gods you gotta be able to get coffee for the director.

In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole.

Great Art is collaborative but not democratic. It’s OK to be the boss

Most pastors have a hard time grasping a vision. But vision is the indispensable quality of a leader.

I work hard. But I play hard, too.