I know that sounds a little bit corny, but I've found some solace in that. I hope art can continue to do that for people, I really do.

If your dream only includes you, it's too small.

Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal.

Figure out what you need to do to be the heroine of your own story.

Don't wait for permission to do something creative.

If you're doing something outside of dominant culture there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.

When you're in your lane, there's no traffic.

We have to find new ways to work without permission, new ways to turn corners and go through doors that are closed off to us to create our own audiences and our own material independently.

I've passed along some advice that Oprah [Winfrey] gave to me: When something bad is happening, it's not happening to you; it's happening for you.

Stop asking, start doing.

If your work is solid, it really doesn't matter what people you know because good work starts to rise to the top.

Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.

Men are very tough, very critical of me. I think they expect you to basically just be a picture. They don't want to hear you speak.

The realization that life is absurdand cannot be an end, but only abeginning. This is a truth nearly allgreat minds have taken as their starting point.

God of ages, Lord of Time, mine is the right to be wrong.

The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid.

Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general.

I love dogs. I grew up with dogs in my family from the time that I was a little boy; we always had German Shepherds and Labradors. I get on very well with dogs, they trust me.

We pray when there's nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.