I'm just like my country, I'm young, scrappy and hungry, and I'm not throwing away my shot.

Everyday has the potential to be the greatest day of your life

I'm past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation.

I try to let my decisions be guided not by what I think will succeed or fail, but what I'm going to learn from that process.

When I get called in for stuff for Hollywood, I get to be the best friend of the Caucasian leadIf I want to play the main guy, I have found, I have to write it.

You can't control the success or failure of a thing you work on. You can only control the thing you work on.

The distance between where I am and where I want to be seems impossibly large.

Ed Koch once said that New York City is where immigrants come to audition for America. That's what happened to my parents; that's what happened to me.

If you're thinking about the idea in the shower. If you're thinking about the idea while you're walking your dog, there's probably something to it.

I think if you want to make a recipe for making a writer, have them feel a little out of place everywhere, have them be an observer kind of all the time. And that's a great way to make a writer.

I'm not going to hang out with celebrities, I'm not going to parties. I have two songs due for Moana next week, and I'm going to go and spend some time with Maui and Moana in the ocean, in my mind.

Every person who denies the truth is a coward who doesn't want to admit the truth

Dust motes swirled in the air like tiny orbs of rainbows.

IF we don't start to rethink how we are acting now...We will pay the price later for our "old-stinking-thinking" style

An athlete learns how to hold her breath, but that doesn't work in singing. You have to learn to relax.

The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.

If you are serious about becoming like Christ, He is going to put you in circumstances where your only true choice is to become like Him.

If it's mentionable, it's manageable.

The people must fight for their laws as for their walls.

Nothing's planned. Never say never.

All of the Mets' road wins against Los Angeles this year have been at Dodger Stadium.