I have heard your words and your disappointment, and I offer you a heart-felt apology to all who felt this was an odd or misguided casting choice.

In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.

Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.

Be positive, be positive. It's rough out there, but don't succumb. Don't succumb to the cynicism in the world.

The future isn't just something that happens. It's a brutal force, with a great sense of humor, that'll steamroll you if you're not watching.

I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me.

Take it from your own life, write what you believe in.

Optimism is a revolutionary act

People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while.

The power of music is still with me, every day. It's one of the most inspiring things available in the world.

Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.

When you get lost in the flow of life, find yourself in the fortress of God!

There's a general intuition around the nonprofit world these days that younger generations are less likely to join. But I have found in my research that that's quite wrong.

If wishes were filet mignon, we'd always eat well at dinner

In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.

Whoever said love conquers all was a fool. Because almost everything conquers love - or tries to.

I decided I wasn't going to come down. I was going to fly. I was going to stay up in the air forever.

I think my generation is a lost generation in a way.

The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.

I often read nonfiction, and some of my ideas begin there.

The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring - thus he erred himself.