Doing and acting build a culture of excellence

You cannot study the same day of a test, and expect to do your very best.

It's crazy how the world evolves and the audience gives you an opportunity to really grow and live out your dreams.

I would prefer you not to say, "That was the most terribly written piece I've ever read." That would hurt me. But you don't think I'm the best person in the world? Well, alright.

True, but if it’s good it’s going be so very, very good.

In March winter is holding back and spring is pulling forward. Something holds and something pulls inside of us too.

Popular psychology is a mass of cant, of slush and of superstition worthy of the most flourishing days of the medicine man.

It was a tough school. The kids on the debating team took steroids!

Surprise is the mother of panic.

Los Angeles is the nation's cultural scapegoat.

I'm proud of where I come from. A lot of people leave Mississippi, and their claim to fame is somewhere else. But I have so many moral values that made me the person I am now.